Agreed that power consumption is a big factor. Something is crazy that these things are 10w. My i5-9600t's idle at 6w (albeit I think Im a bit better than Patri

Agreed that power consumption is a big factor. Something is crazy that these things are 10w. My i5-9600t's idle at 6w (albeit I think Im a bit better than Patrick at tuning boards). My interest is less in a routing system, & more in having a microserver with some real capacity for use, for running some basic local services. I agree there's a place for old slow low power systems but personally i think some ambition for both low power (at low usage) and ability to scale up on demamd just makes sense & is to be expected. For a price, and not a vast one.