Intel has been a one-trick pony for ages. Intel's advantages come at the cost of power, the need for active cooling, and the fact that code for ages has been optimized for x86.
What people don't often consider is how poorly Intel's offerings age. Intel prioritizes speed over safety, so generation after generation has gotten slower and slower over time due to all the software-based mitigations that are needed, and Intel has shown zero indication that we could believe anything is different now.
Also, they intentionally cripple their products. It's 2023, and pretty close to 2024, yet the N100 platform only supports up to 16 gigs? Seriously? I have a number of AMD Athlon AM1 systems from 2014 - almost a decade old - that support 32 gigs. Ever run a SearXNG instance? 16 gigs is fine, if you don't plan to run much else.
Sorry, Intel, but you just aren't relevant in the low power space. I'm more than happy with my Orange Pi 5 (which, incidentally, has a 32 gig version).
The n100 is going into 100 dollar micro systems that compete with the likes of the raspberry pi 5, not every computer needs to be a gaming pc.
As far as intel’s offerings aging, tell that to the 10 year old thinkcentre with a haswell cpu in it I have that I previously used for wev development and want to turn into a hypervisor that can run a nas and other services.
What people don't often consider is how poorly Intel's offerings age. Intel prioritizes speed over safety, so generation after generation has gotten slower and slower over time due to all the software-based mitigations that are needed, and Intel has shown zero indication that we could believe anything is different now.
Also, they intentionally cripple their products. It's 2023, and pretty close to 2024, yet the N100 platform only supports up to 16 gigs? Seriously? I have a number of AMD Athlon AM1 systems from 2014 - almost a decade old - that support 32 gigs. Ever run a SearXNG instance? 16 gigs is fine, if you don't plan to run much else.
Sorry, Intel, but you just aren't relevant in the low power space. I'm more than happy with my Orange Pi 5 (which, incidentally, has a 32 gig version).