@arstechnica I really want to be able to use a Raspberry Pi that way. I've tried several times over the years. They're just so constrained and weak. Plus hardware acceleration is still lacking (especially if you don't use Chromium.)
In the end, yeah, a minipc still really does just work better.
@arstechnica the advent of cheaper and cheaper mini PCs is nice, but at the same time I think the raspi 5 is a bad benchmark; the first raspi was literally 25$, and it worked and ran youtube videos and everything-- sure it was slow, but if we're arguing that for 4-6x the price you get something marginally faster, I'd just reply that for 2x the price you'd have a second hand desktop that is faster than those mini PCs and a lot more upgradable ...
@arstechnica I have to say, I've got 3 of the Trigkey machines and they work really well, 32G ram 8 core 16 thread Ryzens, although I did replace the NVMe with 2Tb sticks, to max them out.
2 are running ProxMox whilst the third is now my desktop running Debian.
So far no issues, and the main aim of reducing power is great, compared to what they are replacing.
@epistomai@arstechnica beeklink do look good except the price, but I'm happy with the 2tb limitations as if I need more storage then that's where the Nas comes into play.
@peter@arstechnica there are some excellent mini-PCs for good prices…but go to the next tier of pricing, and there are even server class options - the Minis Forums MS01 is great - 13900H CPU with 6P core & 8E cores, Proxmox works really well on it, 2.5 & 10Gb network capacity, plenty of SSD slots, DDR5 memory. What’s not to like…except it’s uses a bit more power than my small Asus PN51 boxes with Ryzen CPUs (…but still well under 100W most of the time)
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