Hello simon,
Do you still have your raspberry pi two or raspbery pi three?
I think we were discussing it back in the days. While these odroids are more powerfull you might try just testing running a similar setup on the pi to find out if similar performance range will be acceptable to you.
About two years ago I've got a HP Chromebox for some 160€. This has a quadcore 64bit celeron, 2GB of ram and 16GB of emmc storage inside.
Since there was no slovak TTS for chrome OS at that time I've just installed Arch linux to dualboot with ChromeOs on this thing.
I'm running mate including firefox and libre office on that and it appears to work quite well over here.
Greetings
Peter
If you get an Intel computer for under 200 euros, you will likely get something like a dual-core Celeron or something equally horrible. I couldn't believe when I saw on Amazon that they still make those, and they charge more for one Celeron than I paid for my complete C2 motherboard, which includes the processor, the RAM and everything but the storage. Power consumption is higher overall as well, so you will actually pay more money to run it. ARM processors are a good deal faster than Celerons, and use less power, especially these newer A53 processors in the C2 and the 8 processor cores in the XU4. The XU4 will set you back a little more, but it really flies. The eMMC will likely be your biggest expense, but you can just get something small, put only the OS on maybe a 16GB eMMC and use a MicroSD card for the rest of your files, which costs quite a bit less. The high price of eMMC comes from the fact that it pretty much works just like an SSD, but is much smaller. They are screaming fast, and I've had mine now for close to a year, and it still works just as well as it did the day I purchased it. I'm actually a bit surprised by the performance of these things, as I never thought flash memory would be able to perform like this and last this long. The biggest advantages are the size of the computer and the low power consumption. My XU4 is about the size of two decks of playing cards held side by side. The C2 is a little taller, but that's because I specifically purchased a more open case for it. Either of these can be purchased with a power supply, but the C2 is capable of being powered by a USB cable plugged into either a wall outlet or one of those powerbank external batteries that can charge a cell phone, making it rather portable, though you still have input devices and such separate from the machine itself, which could become a cluttered mess depending on how far you're trying to take it. Still, it's a really good option if the power goes out and you find yourself needing a computer, as long as your internet gateway is also backed by a battery.
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