N100 wasn't yet released when this was written in May (or was only just released).

Also the N100 only supports 16G RAM, and this guy has 64G. Number of pcix lanes (9 vs. 20) probably matter for their use case as well. And the i5 does seem quite a bit faster in general.

Comparison: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...

+1 for the Nx00 series of chips. I just bought myself a pre-built mini pc with an N100. Low power, good price, great performance.

I wonder if in a few years they might not eat the whole mini PC market. If the price can come down such that they’re competitive with the various kinds of Pis…

I'm very impressed with my N100 mini PC (fits in your palm) that I bought from AliExpress. Takes between 2-8W and uses just a plain old 12V plug-style power supply with a DC barrel. Perfect for Home Assistant and light virtualisation.

Performance is actually better than my quad core i5-6500 mini PC. Definitely no slouch.

Because author said they wanted a bunch of disks.

Another happy N100 mini PC user. Mine's about 7W when idle, including a couple of spinning USB drives. The most I could get it to pull was about 14W. Really remarkable little systems for a very good price.

I bought a tiny, fits in the palm of my hand, N100 box on Amazon for $150[1]. It currently does basically everything I need and idles at 7.5W.

I’ve got cloudflare setup for dns management and a few simple sites hosted on it like blogs and Gitea. It has an sd card slot that I use as extra storage.

Sure it’s not nearly as awesome as the setup detailed here but I couldn’t recommend it more if you just want a small simple home server.

[1] https://a.co/d/cIzEFPk

Very few pcie lanes