It's an interesting segment, especially now that Intel N100 machines are out. But it essentially depends on what you want to do, and what use/need you have for

It's an interesting segment, especially now that Intel N100 machines are out. But it essentially depends on what you want to do, and what use/need you have for ARM hardware. Me, I write fairly low-level stuff that runs on ARM (for kicks), so having one of these as a server/development sandbox makes a ton of sense (even though I have Macs and VMs and whatnot, some things you can only do with hardware). I grant that you won't find normal people filling their closets with these. But when you walk past, say, a phone exchange, a 5G base station, or any other of hundreds of invisible machines out there, they'll be running a variation of these boards (perhaps slower and dumber, but soon ramping up to this kind of thing), because Intel lost the embedded market years back.