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    Damn electron and the likes (i.imgur.com)
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I wonder what the hell they are doing with it? I mean I have the 3B with IIRC 1GB and I can use the desktop and run python scripts to fiddle with all the I/O ports and stuff, what do you do with a raspberry that needs eight times the RAM??

    I'm seriously curious!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    At that point you're running some sort of server on it probably.

    For which, it's not even the most cost effective hardware tbh. There are X86 based tiny PCs for good prices used

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    How does power consumption of those x86 PCs compare?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Last time I asked around about this question, the answer was surprisingly "probably not much"! When a low-power x86 chip (like those mobile chips) is idling (which is pretty much all the time if all you are doing is hosting a server on it) it consumes very little power, about the same level as an idling Pi. It is when the frequency ramps up that performance-per-watt gets noticeably worse on x86.

    Edit: My personal test showed that my x86 laptop fared slightly worse than my Pi 3 in idling power (~2 watts higher it seems), but that laptop is oooooooold.