[treesknees]

That will depend on what your project requires. There are a large number of Pi users that could get by with a simple x86 desktop-class PC or thin client [1] which, as the article points out, can have pretty similar wattage and compute power compared to say running 3-4 Pis.

It gets a little tricky when you start talking about GPIO requirements. There are things like the ASUS tinkerboard [2] but it's much more expensive than a Pi.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/used-thin-client-pcs...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WPVVZNH

[destitude]

Power usage is the problem. Running a machine that uses 10x more power to accomplish same task that a Pi could is an issue.

[treesknees]

To clarify, yes it takes more power than a single Pi. But for any projects where someone would be running _multiple_ Pi's, then the power usage is close if not equal. These machines are able to run the workload of 3-5 Pi's with roughly equal power budgets of 3-5 Pi's.

[oblak]

There are a number of machines using 5800u @ 15W. That's hardly 10x more power. They are only slightly bigger but offer a quite a bit more performance, let alone features.

That said, what am I talking about costs about 500. There's some overlap but it's not exactly the same market.

[ciupicri]

15W for the whole system or just the AMD 5800U CPU?