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I agree. I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and regret not getting one of these N100s instead for a small home server. A lot of the killer features of the Pi like
by javchz 2y ago
I agree.
I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and regret not getting one of these N100s instead for a small home server. A lot of the killer features of the Pi like using a traditional phone charger, being passively cooled, and being "cheap" are no longer there if you want a stable system. On the other hand, the "low power" from ARM systems, it's not that big of a lip compared to a traditional X64 mini-PC CPUs.
- wkat4242 2y agoYep. I was in the same spot. The N100 is also cheaper if you factor in the adapter, case, nvme etc. I had a N100 for 100 bucks. Much better than a pi for a small home assistant server IMO. Raspberries are no longer cheap nor especially good value for money. Things were really different at the time of their introduction. There wasn't really anything similar except the Marvell based sheevaplug. The only thing I'd use a pi for now is something that really needs GPIO as well as significant processing (eg more than an esp32 offers).
- icelancer 2y agoThe RPi ecosystem is more or less only valuable for the HATs, the form factor, and accessories/code that works with it out of the box. I've moved on to N100s for most of the low-cost stuff but RPi HATs and the GPIO stuff give it pretty good future value for awhile, I think.
- zamadatix 2y agoI think that's the most interesting part of this particular board - the built in RP2040 and 40 pin header for Pi hats. With the Pi 5 splitting off GPIO to an external chip anyways there really isn't much advantage to having a "real" Pi for GPIO/hats vs this - some stuff around firmware/software image integration for really complicated hats mostly.