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by yjftsjthsd-h 779 days ago
> People complaining about Raspberry Pi being too expensive versus a used and abused intel NUC being superior going to swarm this thread in 1..2..3!

You're the only one talking about it... but I mean yeah used x86 boxes do tend to beat a pi at price, performance, and software compatibility, and only lose at power consumption (unreliably, at that) and physical size.
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Semaphor 779 days ago
> only lose at power consumption

Not even that. The J4125 box I have runs circles around my Pi4, was only 40€, and has a lower power consumptions (though at those levels the difference is mostly meaningless) The size is a huge difference, but as they are both in the living room cupboard (the Pi4 now runs Proxmox Backup Server), that doesn’t really make a difference for my case.

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yjftsjthsd-h 779 days ago
There's a reason I said the pi only won power consumption unreliably:) It's very dependent on workload (pi idles low, but under load that doesn't go as well) and the exact competition (x86 includes boards that happily run <10W, and also machines that idle in the tens of Watts:]).
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