[synesthesiam]

Coauthor of the blog post here. You're right, I said it on the live stream we had today but forgot to mention it in the blog post: the i5 is from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M72e. They're available refurbished for less than the cost of a Pi 4 these days, so it seemed to be a good comparison!

[bioemerl]

Man, I switched my home assistant box from a raspberry pi to one of these machines, because I wanted the raspberry pi to run one of my 3D printers, and it has made such a beautiful difference in terms of the snappiness of everything home assistant does.

I super recommend it, if you can afford the extra 10 to 15 watts of power.

[TheFragenTaken]

The ThinkCentre runs at 65W, a Pi4 runs at ~8W. There's a slight energy crisis (in Europe), so you need to optimise for workloads that can run at lower power levels. Just, voice in my opinion, does not justify 65W constant draw.

[boringuser2]

No personal offense, this is a very common affectation that has just personally been a bugaboo for me lately due to technical documentation containing these non-technical statements.