Getting The Most For Your ~$200
The Raspberry Pi 5 is a powerful beast in comparison with it’s predecessors, and may make a half respectable answer for a low powered desktop PC. The value can also be greater than different Raspberry Pi units, in order that by the point you’ve added an M.2 adapter, case and different accoutrements you’ll spend round $200. Amazon sells quite a lot of low value mini PCs for about that very same worth, which made Ars Technica curious to see if they were a better investment for a tiny desktop substitute. They ordered a Bosgame B100 for $170and a GMKtec NucBox G2 for $180.
The 2 units each use the Intel Processor N100, with 4 E-cores, the distinction is the Bosgame makes use of DDR4 whereas the GMKtex makes use of DDR5. The 2 mini PCs ship with Home windows 11, typically Professional and typically not, which is a superb deal even when all you need is one other Home windows license. That didn’t cease Ars from testing out Linux nevertheless, with combined outcomes. Check out how they configured the mini PCs to get probably the most out of them, and the way their efficiency and quirks examine to a Pi 5.
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