A bit expensive, but something like this could be a worthy upgrade on the good old PC-Engine APU4 boards many self-hosters use.

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It’s a good-looking device, but it was stupid of them to use M1 as the name when Apple’s got that name locked down as far as what shows up in a search engine.

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Pardon my ignorance, I’m just starting to learn some things here; what are the applications of this device?

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To serve as a router or firewall.

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Thank you!

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Those are two boards stacked together, right? Or am I confused about what sbc refers to?

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Yeah, but the other person says this two boards computer counts, hence the confusion

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It is two, but the top board is optional. So i think it’s still a sbc with an optional addition on?

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Oh ok then, I don’t really know much about SBC, I thought it was a literal term.

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Dang, I was actually interested until I saw the possible non standard USBc port instead of a flipping barrel jack. Give me PD or give me a barrel jack.

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For a fixed installation I don’t think the power delivery mechanism matters that much. For something you’re moving around yeah 100% use a standard plug.

any immobile infrastructure doesn’t really matter right, you’re going to set it up once and never move it

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Yeah, I noticed that too. USB-C, but 12-19V really limits the choice of power connectors you can use. However, I guess any modern USB-C laptop psu will work.

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My APU4 running OpenWRT kinda struggles to run SQM on my 1.2gbps connection, cuts the download speeds in half, I wonder if this i3 could do any better.

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Very likely as the CPU and the Intel NICs in the APU4 are over a decade old now.

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