N100 is not more expensive. It’s about the same price. 8GB pi5 is $80 Power brick around $15 Decent cooled case $20 Heat sink $8 SD $15-20 And this is all excl

N100 is not more expensive. It’s about the same price. 8GB pi5 is $80 Power brick around $15 Decent cooled case $20 Heat sink $8 SD $15-20 And this is all excluding NVMe hat with NVMe drive, ie you’re stuck with absolutely miserable storage I/O. Or you can N100, 8GB (replaceable and expandable RAM, 256GB NVMe (also replaceable) for $140. https://a.co/d/fIu6l2k https://a.co/d/fIu6l2k Pi5 does not make any sense in this day and age, unless you specifically need GPIO for your tinkering. You can save $30 by going with the 2GB pi5 option but that seems the wrong direction to go. N100 is more than 50% better performance with similar or lower cost and better support for off the shelf ram and ssd.