Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by vladvasiliu 1095 days ago
Sure, but those tend to be much more expensive, so depending on the actual cost of electricity in your area, it may take a long time for you to break even.

However, if you want to have a really small appliance-like pc, then yeah, the NUC-sized ones are much better.
1 comments
KennyBlanken 1095 days ago
The low-power AMD based systems everyone recommended a couple years ago were indeed great, until the ebay resellers realized what was going on and started slapping "opnsense pfsense AES-NI" etc on their listings and doubled their prices. The systems went from selling at $40-50 to over $100.

Also, the AMD processor in those systems is getting extremely long in the tooth.

link