Hi,

is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??

No thank you for Rapsberry PI


I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.

But it’s really hard to found a Linux distribution that support

  • RPI (arm64)
  • sysVinit 💖
  • And that I like

Please don’t bring systemD in this discussion thanks.

( first row is for reference )

brand model Price € GPIO pair CPU Lan Ports idle watt Surface area cm² Storage ports WiFi / BT url
Raspberry Pi Pi 5 B (4GB) 52 12 Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz. 1x 1GbE 3 47 SD
radxa[1] X4 90 12 N100 ▼ 1x 2.5GbE 18W ? 47.6 M.2[2], eMMC[2:1] W6, BT5.2
HardKernel ? ODROID H4 109 ?? N97 ▲ 1x 2.5GbE N.C -> 60W ? 144 eMMC, M.2*, SATA* https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/

last update: 2025-08-31

  1. Seem unavailable on the europe market… ↩︎

  2. Might not be bootable ! TBC ↩︎ ↩︎

  • Rick_C137@programming.devOP
    1·
    5 days ago

    Thank you all for your input’s ! \

    So I have created a table , that I’ll put in my first post.

    Feel free to post update like

    |brand|model|Price €|GPIO pair|CP|Lan Ports|idle watt|Surface area cm²|Storage ports| WiFi / BT|url|
    |Raspberry Pi|Pi 5 B (4GB)|52|12|Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.|1x 1GbE|3|47|SD|||

    or even without the row header

  • passepartout@feddit.org
    2·
    16 days ago

    Buy a used 1l mini PC like the Lenovo thinkcentre tiny (or similar Dell or HP models). You will have to spend a bit more, but you could get one with a pretty capable Intel CPU from gen 7 or 8 upwards for virtualization with Proxmox.

    If you’re really just looking for a x86 SBC, get a Radxa with an Intel N100 or something similar. They sell at about your price limit with low specs on Aliexpress:

    https://radxa.com/products/x/x4/

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    2·
    16 days ago

    Nope. If you’re talking SOC, nothing like that exists anywhere near this price point. If you just mean a cheap x86 machine, find a used minipc or something on eBay, but it’s going to be a crapshoot.