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

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277 points transpute | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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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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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1. 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.