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Yep. With the popularity, one would assume we'd be able to get a CPU that's not a decade behind smartphones. Mine is now gathering dust; it's inefficient for t

• moffkalast 2y ago
  The power consumption is genuinely worse than advertised (2x the draw of Pi 4, 3x the performance). The reality is a 3W idle minimum, 15W at full load, meanwhile the Pi 4 can idle at 1W and won't ever go over 5W. They're just about the same power per watt, the efficiency gains are zero.
• dandanua 2y ago
  For a NAS, surveillance, streaming and alike I think old smartphones are more efficient than modern Pi and analogies. They also have a screen, battery, less heating and other advantages.
  • prmoustache 2y ago
    > less heating I am not so sure about that unless maybe you mod them to extract everything from the original casing and add heatsinks and possibly a fan. Also from a safety point of view, you'd need to make sure those can still be powered up without their batteries as I wouldn't trust a +10y old smartphone battery on a device that is running unattended 24h/365d/year.