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I have a Bosgame AG40 (low end Celeron N4020 - less powerful than the N100 - but runs fanless)[1].

It's 127 x 127 x 508 mm. I think most mini N100 PCs are around that size.

The OrangePi 5 Max board is 89x57mm (it says 1.6mm "thickness" on the spec sheet but I think that is a typo - the ethernet port is more than that)

Add a few mm for a case and it's roughly 2/3 as long and half the width of the A40.

[1] https://manuals.plus/asin/B0DG8P4DGV

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There are quite a few x86-64 machines in the 70mm x 70mm form factor[1], which is close?

1: https://www.ecs.com.tw/en/Product/Mini-PC/LIVA_Q2/

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Lmao the hero background. They photoshopped the pc into the back pocket of that AI-generated woman. (or the entire thing is AI-generated)
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I have an even cheesier competitor, which randomly has a dragon on the lid (it would be a terrible choice for all but the wimpiest casual gaming... but it makes a good Home Assistant HAOS server!)
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I dunno, I hear it‘s easy to put in your pocket and let the computer is everywhere
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welcome to online shopping..
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Also about half as efficient, if that matters, and 1.5-2x higher idle power consumption (again, if that matters).

Sometimes easier to acquire, but usually the same price or more expensive.

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I can run my N100 nuc at 4W wall socket power draw idle. If I keep turbo boost off, it also stays there under normal load up to 6W full power. Then it is also terribly slow. With turbo boost enabled power draw can go to 8-10W on full load.

Not sure how this compares to the OrangePI in terms of performance per watt but it is already pretty far into the area of marginal gains for me at the cost of having to deal with ARM, custom housing, adapters to ensure the wall socket draw to be efficient etc. Having an efficient pico psu power a pi or orange pi is also not cheap.

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Which NUC do you have? A lot of the nameless brands on aliexpress draw 10 watts on idle.
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Not the poster you're replying to, but I run an Acer laptop with an N305 CPU as a Plex server. Idle power draw with the lid closed is 4-5W and I keep the battery capped at 80% charge.
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Well... https://radxa.com/products/x/x4/

It has major overheating issues though, the N100 was never meant to be put on such a tiny PCB.

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They also sell a heatsink for mere $21 (on AliExpress), just in case you don't know how to fit a spare PC cooler onto it.
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