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What's your price point and spec desire/use case? ARM or x86-64? There are good ARM SBC alternatives with good community by ODroid and a few other brands for $
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What's your price point and spec desire/use case? ARM or x86-64?
There are good ARM SBC alternatives with good community by ODroid and a few other brands for $30-$100. ODroid probably has the biggest and best community outside RPi.
Used thin and zero clients can be had for very cheap and used for low power, low resource needs.
Alternatively, the new ultra low power Jasper Lake CPUs are pretty insane for the price/power and you can get complete mini PCs with "real" nvme or sata storage, dual 4k@60Hz video output, 1 or 2.5Gbit Ethernet for $150-250. Search for n5095 (15W TDP), n5100 (6W), n5105 (10W), n6000 (6W), or n6105 (10 W) mini PC on Amazon. The iGPUs on these are killer and can handle 2-3 4k transcodes too. They make great media/storage servers (that's what I'm using one I just bought for)
I love SBCs, homelabbing, and squeezing as much out of hardware per watt and dollar. Liliputing and ServetheHome have been great resources.
https://liliputing.com/tag/mini-pc/ https://liliputing.com/tag/mini-pc/
https://www.servethehome.com/ https://www.servethehome.com/