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Comment by LeoPanthera | Hacker News Reader

> An x86 mini PC from the likes of Beelink is going to be way better at the computer stuff.

And a minimum of 5x more expensive, and more like 10x in most cases.

Intel N100 and N95 MiniPCs are cheap as chips, the last one I bought was $60 and had 8GB of RAM and 256GB of NVMe SSD, plus it included the power adapter and two ethernet ports.

Mind sharing which one you bought and from where? I was looking around at a few and they seemed to start at around $120 shipped with no RAM nor storage.

I've linked to a few in a recent post[1], they're in the $150-ish range including storage and RAM.

I have several Pis doing various work, some 3Bs, some Zero Ws, some 4B.

The 5 just does not make sense to me and I don't see myself buying it unless the price radically changes.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42365555

I see Beelink systems on their site for $169, which is less than 2x the cost of a Pi 500.

It's because beelink is building up a name that makes them able to market their products at a premium price. Many other brands of these are much cheaper. My 8/256 one was 120 and that included an nvme. The pi with adapter comes to about the same and does not include storage and is also much slower than an N100.

Not really! I found one for $129 at 8GB RAM/256GB SSD. To get an equivalent RPI you start with $80 for the device, get up to $100 for the power supply and case, get up to $114 to add the m.2 hat, and then you still have to buy your SSD.

Plus, the Beelink can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM.

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