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Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform.

To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card.

https://archive.is/Vkj36

Fagafruit is generally a bit more expensive than others, Micro Center sometimes has these for $300 or so...but still. I know if you need a small powerful board you are beheld to market forces, but we're starting to approach more industrial options here, and this is totally out of hobby range. You'd be better off finding an older i5 with 16GB on a real x86 platform. To top it all off, it still uses a shitty USB connector for power - 25W worth, and still does not have any kind of storage past that shitty uSD card. https://archive.is/Vkj36
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[–] • 3 pts

There are many cheaper options that run Armbian, which in my opinion seems to be a better maintained system that isn't constantly fucking with stuff just to do so.

[–] • 4 pts

For about $350, you can get a Beelink with a Ryzen 7. Much faster than a Pi.

[–] • 3 pts

Yes, there are a lot of options. You can probably find older machines like 6th-8th gen iCore equivalents for next to nothing if you ask around. Plenty of horsepower for any home server task you could throw at it save the most demanding video work.

[–] • 2 pts

Yeah at this cost, I don't really see why you'd get a pi. Power savings maybe?