i’ve got a used dell optiplex laying around for any bigger projects so a pi would be for tinkering with and small scale stuff. I didn’t have a good grasp of how slow it would run though thank you
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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months agoIf you’re OK with a little more power usage (like 10W instead of 3-5W), you can buy a mini PC from Dell/Lenovo/HP with a 7th gen Intel CPU for about $50-70 on ebay, with storage and RAM included. As a bonus you also get a case, power supply, cooling, etc… which you have to buy extra for the Pi.
It’ll significantly faster in every way, with a lot more options for expansion if needed.
morgin@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
A mini-pc with an Intel N100 will be a little more expensive (I bought one for ~150€) but it’s about 5-6 times faster than the Pi and mine also came with 16gb of RAM and a 500gb SSD. AV1 decode is also great if you plan to run something like Kodi on it or you want to do transcoding from an AV1 video with Jellyfin (I haven’t migrated those to it yet, so I don’t know how well it works in practice). I’m not sure but it might not even be a lot more expensive than a Pi with 8gb of RAM and an additional 500gb SSD.