[phamilton4]

I haven't been able to find them for cheaper than say ~$120 USD. I purchased two "GMKtec Mini PC Windows 11 Pro Intel 11th Gen N5105" on amazon for $115 each after a coupon. These are the 8GB Memory and 128GB SSD version. I'm okay with that price for an x86 CPU (even though it doesn't support AVX). There are a few other brands you can find out there with either a N5095 or N5105 (Alibaba even had 16GB memory versions).

[jabbany]

Right, but an 8G RPi is $75 MSRP, so this is over a 30% - 50% higher cost!

For most projects that really _need_ a Pi (for the GPIO, CSI etc.), most don't require the 8G version, and you can get by with a 2 or 4G which is closer to $50 or less.

If the goal is compute/$ (or for that matter, compute/W) though, Pis are nowhere near being the most efficient for that and haven't been for years.