Comment by prmoustache

Everytime I used a pi the cabling ended up being a mess. A regular computer usually have all ports on one side only, and possibly additionnal usb / trs on the other side. On the PI power/hdmi/TRS is on one side, usb/ethernet on another, GPIO on another and more easily accessible from the top. This is my major PITA concerning the PIs.

In the end most of the gains made from the small footprint are lost because the actual physical footprint increase from the number of cables you have to attach to it from all sides.