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For $150 you can get a new mini pc with a low power intel cpu (e.g. N100) and 8GB of Ram. It comes with an SSD, a power supply and (gasp) a case. Add those to a
by mrighele 2y ago
For $150 you can get a new mini pc with a low power intel cpu (e.g. N100) and 8GB of Ram. It comes with an SSD, a power supply and (gasp) a case. Add those to a raspberry pi and the price is not much different.
- manojlds 2y agoI have been looking at a N100, are they good in general as a Pi alternative. I am mostly looking at running K8s and running apps and running things like Pihole
- addandsubtract 2y agoI recently got a mini PC with an N100, 16GB ram, 512 GB SSD for €150, and am using it to run several docker compose projects. Basic home lab apps, such as nginx, home assistant, adguard home, vaultwarden (bitwarden), and actual and the CPU is at 4% and RAM is at 22%. I don't know how intensive K8s is, but I'm very happy with my setup and am surprised it's not breaking a sweat running all these things.
- manojlds 2y agoCould you post a link as well please? I am in the UK and lot of the posts talk about US links which seem to show much cheaper prices
- mmaniac 2y agoThey're all over Aliexpress (prices before VAT, annoyingly) and often posted to hotukdeals when there's a sale. The Ryzen based miniPCs are also pretty good. Here's an example. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005234838380.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005234838380.html