The part that&#x27;s missing in the comparison:<p>Elliot 405:  Used to run business calculations<p>Pi Zero:  Used run a sprinkler system<p>What has been really interesting to me over the last several years that these stick computers have been around is how people are using giga-Hertz range processors with an huge operating system and truckloads of memory for stuff that&#x27;s easily done with a small 8 bit processor with K&#x27;s of RAM vs G&#x27;s of ram and a simple time-sliced tasking mini OS written in an afternoon.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s great that one can buy a computer like the Pi Zero for $5.  I&#x27;m afraid something is being lost in the process.  Maybe it doesn&#x27;t matter.  I mean, if one can get something the size of your pinky that cost less than coffee at Starbucks to run Linux...