Comment on Is the Orange Pi 5 overkill for my needs?
kassuro@feddit.de 1 year ago
Have you considered buying a use thin client / mini PC?
Since the Orange Pi 5 sounded interesting, I checked it out and it’s rather expensive. Well at least for me.
I found it from 180 to 200 Euro for the 8GB Version. An used thin client or mini PC can be bought for half the money and comes most of the time with 256gb storage included.
The extra cost for energy should be less than what you might be paying extra for the Orange Pi plus storage.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This, was about to do this myself. ~$60-80 for a lenovo m720q on eBay with 256gb SSD, 8gb ram, 8th gen Intel i3 8100t or if you are lucky i5-8400t. Why would get anything else?
empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 year ago
The ARM cpu will still beat out an i3/i5 in idle and load power consumption, and the mini PC also does not have GPIO for people who care about that kind of stuff.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, I agree. But those aren’t any of OP’s requirements so not sure where you are going with this?
Also, ~5watt difference again not sure where you are going with this. x86 supports more OS and ram can also be increased if needed. In OP’s requirements the winner is clear.