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In my personal case, I need to be able to run couchdb. No arm arch package out of the box that I've been able to find. Last time I tried it on arm I gave up after several hours of chasing dependencies while trying to compile from source. Waste of time... Just works on x86. 2 minutes, done. Then I found proxmox, building portalable containers and VMs, and I'm just that much deeper in x86 land. Arm cloud support, while improving, is no where near x86 availability.

Benchmarks are fine and good, but immaterial. I don't really care about 50% more or less speed. It's a server. If I do my job right +/- a few 10s of ms for response time is immaterial. The speed delta between the EMMC and SATA M.2 may well make up for raw processor speed in my use cases which tend to use the I/O.

Your particular board is very niche. I mean, yeah, you have nice ethernet. But that's it. I need my M.2 slots. I need more ram. I could get an x86 board with everything for more $$$, nvme, 2.5-10GBE. It's a compromise.

The J4105 is like 1/3rd the price of the rk3588/rk3588s.

I could go on. To each his own. I'm glad you like your board :) Enjoy it.