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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

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276 points transpute | 3 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.654s | source
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voxadam ◴[04 Jul 25 12:55 UTC] No.44464109[source]▶
Unless you need the features on the Pi's 40-pin GPIO connector or very low power consumption a mini PC is a much better bet for general compute.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[04 Jul 25 13:06 UTC] No.44464186[source]▶
As the article shows, even power consumption can be debatable. If you're looking to get a certain amount of work done, the Intel mini PC can do it faster expending less power thanks to the smaller transistor size it uses. Maybe there are scenarios where continuous idle power is more important and the RPi still wins (there's no idle power graph in the article) but even if you're power-constrained, the Pi isn't the best choice anymore.

The GPIO header and community remain a solid reason to still opt for the Pi, but the age of "raspberry pi as a cheap home server" is pretty much over, thanks to Intel and AMD slowly watching up to ARM.

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2. ekianjo ◴[04 Jul 25 13:15 UTC] No.44464269[source]▶
it was over as soon as the Pi went out of stock and unit price skyrocketed since 2020.
3. whazor ◴[04 Jul 25 13:19 UTC] No.44464300[source]▶
Note that the Odroid H3 with an Intel N5105 can do less than 2W< idle, which is competitive with the RPI5. The next generation H4 is even more efficient.