> But at the same time, I always hope that people recognize that these things are really not great solutions in general. This contraption idles at 15W (per the

> But at the same time, I always hope that people recognize that these things are really not great solutions in general. This contraption idles at 15W (per the article) and pulls 24W during a benchmark. Within that power envelope you can pick up a more powerful tiny x86 board that takes up less space, probably costs less overall, and performs much better without requiring you to coordinate your project across 4 separate tiny computers. I agree with all of this and if you really need to have multiple separate systems (such as to test/develop some clustering thing) you can easily turn a 25W-35W max TDP, x86-64 motherboard and cpu combo into a xen or kvm hypervisor, on debian or centos. And put as many VMs as you need on that.