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Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price
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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.
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No one would want to buy this to use with high-demanding applications, but for hobbies and trivial stuff. With that said, even a Orange pi zero 3 is "better" than both Rpi 5 and the n100.
tl;dr: The magic word is convenience.
Oh it depends on what you need it for. There's definitely some things socs are better for. No need to be up in arms about it.