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Cheap mini PCs are the death knell for Raspberry Pis

Initially designed to attract new students to the joys of computing, the Raspberry Pi lineup made Single-Board Computers available to thousands of tinkers – including yours truly. My first contact ...
Liliputing

Cheap mini PCs with Intel Processor N95 Alder Lake-N chips are now available from Amazon

Last week Liliputing reported that the first mini PCs powered by Intel Processor N95 chips were available from AliExpress with starting prices under $200 for a barebones model. But now there are more ...
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Read this before buying that cheap mini PC

Mini PCs tend to underperform next to similarly-priced tower PCs. Expect to pay a premium for one with decent gaming performance. Upgrade options for mini PCs are usually limited to storage and RAM, ...
Ars Technica

What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop

I recently tried to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as a regular desktop PC. The experiment wasn’t a failure—I was able to use a Pi to get most of my work done for a few days. But the device’s performance, and ...
Ars Technica

What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop

I used to have raspberry pi 4 8GB as my media server but there were occasional issues like wifi getting disconnected and server transcoding issues. I bought a used mini PC for about 170 usd running a ...