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What I take from this is that if I have a project in mind that I want to do right now and it requires a very small computer, then I should not do that project.

Instead, I should wait a few months (or most of a year), triple my budget, and make room for a larger system.

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worstspotgain1y ago· 2 in thread

Or go ahead and make whichever choice right now and regret your purchase later, or don't. The keyword was IMO.

Obviously if $200 is tripling your budget then you're leaving some unneeded peripheral out. The N100 probably won't work either as the cheapest one on Amazon is apparently $120.

ssl-3OP1y ago

The median of the price range listed is $300.

N100 boxes are available for purchase today (not just sometime in the mysterious future) for less than $100, delivered.

$300 ÷ $100 = 3, hence: Tripling the budget.

(I could have picked the high end of the range, just as you selected the low end, but that would have been disingenuous of me. $300 is right in the middle.)

worstspotgain1y ago

The range I gave is based on CPU/RAM/SSD specs obviously, so your N100 system should be specced to match.

Here's an i7-11390H/16GB/512GB system you can buy today on Amazon from a somewhat reputable Chinese brand for $170. Its CPU is ~50% faster than a N100 single-threaded and ~80% faster multi-threaded:

https://www.amazon.com/ACEMAGIC-11390H-Computer-Desktop-Supp...

A similarly priced system with a much faster CPU will be on sale in 3 months, maybe sooner. Feel free to spec a similar N100 system on Amazon (or Newegg or a similarly reputable vendor with no-questions-asked returns) for much less.

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