In terms of speed, they're about par, maybe a slight bit slower. Le Potato is missing WiFi, but for my use as servers, that's fine because they're plugged into a switch anyway. I use Ubuntu in a headless configuration. The desktop works fine too. I can watch a Youtube video at full HD and it sputters occasionally. Mostly it's watchable though. The PI isn't perfect in this regard either. They're certainly less expensive and obtainable.