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Specs: - Intel Twin Lake N150 4-cores, 4-threads (3.6GHz) Processor
- 8GB DDR4 3200 MHz Memory (32GB max)
- 256GB PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 NVMe Solid State Drive
- 2TB max M.2 2242 SATA (Not Included)
- Intel UHD 1000MHz Graphics
- WiFi 6 802.11ax +Bluetooth 5.2
- Windows 11 Pro
- Ports:
- 4x USB 3.2 up to 5Gbps/S
- 2x HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz)
- 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
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Anyway, if your goal is retro gaming, a Raspberry Pi is smaller and more energy-efficient for these types of tasks, but honestly, once you add in a case, a good power supply (RPi's are picky with respect to power...), and storage, it is probably at the same price or even more than this $130 machine. But if you are interested in more modern gaming or more powerful emulation, this system would be better and give you more flexibility for future upgrades.
Just saying buyers might want to read up.
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It turns out that N150 was so new that you need an updated Linux kernel to get the matching Intel graphics driver. Here's the command to get the kernel that fixed my problem:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-oem-24.04b
Reference: https://forums.linuxmin
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I use it as a utility/test pc, its an appliance.
Its basically a chromebook in performance, the problem with N100 type cpus is the ecores are cache starved, its slow. That's not even really accurate because chromebooks now come with 2 performance cores + the 4ecores and so feel much snappier. A pcore is about the size of 4 ecores, its significant.
Put it this way, windows update slams it hard, a real desktop shrugs that off.
It does things like playback video fine because of hardware acceleration, but if you depend on the cpu its a slug.
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/com...re_i5_446
Have all my media on Emby server. Lots of 4k/8K atmos content.
Need something that will reliably stream it to a TV
I've found Kodi can be a real pain with stock Linux installs. Lots of menu crashing. But running a Libreelec build for PCs is great.
Have all my media on Emby server. Lots of 4k/8K atmos content.
Need something that will reliably stream it to a TV
I have N100 running jellyfin and a of other service containers in docker/proxmox. My server doesnt even have any of the media local, it reads over network from NAS and spits it back to clients, this includes full 4K discs, untouched, to as many clients in the house connects to it.
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Side note: With Trump slapping tariffs on China and possibly on chips and other pc components from other countries down the road, this IMHO is the time to get your computing needs fulfilled before stuff become more expensive.