alt Hacker NewsShow HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs
The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized).
Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
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dthakur • today at 2:53 AM
Nice work. Clustering around N95/N100/N150 visible.
yodon • today at 12:42 AM
It would help if you actually explained what the color means.
What is yellow? What is green? What is blue? Are they relative to their CPU column? Relative to the pricing row? Absolute?
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The same N150 CPU mini PC with 12GB RAM I bought on Amazon a year ago seems to have considerably increased in price, as a result of the RAM price surge... Even though what's soldered onto its motherboard is probably the cheapest possible ddr4-2666 or similar.