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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: 0.813s | source
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whywhywhywhy ◴[04 Jul 25 14:03 UTC] No.44464674[source]▶
It's genuinely crazy how much better value an N100 is and how much better it works out of the box than a Pi for anything that is a little server, plex/jellyfin, self hosting project that doesn't need to talk to electronics/GPIO.

Caveat being about my comment is my N100 us used mostly as a Jellyfin server/torrent downloader running windows but has two SSDs inside it and has worked flawlessly for 2 years. Not sure how well it performs under Linux but I've used Pi's a lot previously and this beats it in terms of getting the job done and in price for a similar Pi setup.

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1. tw04 ◴[04 Jul 25 16:41 UTC] No.44465968[source]▶
Depending on what you’re doing, even for gpio. Just use a USB gpio board.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264

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2. chasd00 ◴[04 Jul 25 17:04 UTC] No.44466153[source]▶
man, i couldn't hit the upvote button hard enough. That is a very cool breakout, thank you for the link. I'm already thinkking about that breakout connected to the 16 channel PWM breakout I already have. Now i can play around with servos, and many other things, right from my laptop with all my usual build tools instead of having to power up my pi zero and connect over ssh first. I love Adafruit, they do so many cool things.
3. puzzlingcaptcha ◴[04 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44467907[source]▶
If you can do without SPI there's also https://www.adafruit.com/product/4471 You can also just get the chip (MCP2221A) in a DIP package and just pluck it in a breadboard. All you need is two bypass caps and two pullup resistors if you need I2C.