I stumbled upon this accidentally the other day when looking for a new SBC and wanted to make everyone aware of it. It's the Beelink BT3 Pro II. I was able to pick up one from Amazon for $99. Mine came with a nice card in the box promising Linux installation help
It's about twice the size of a raspberry pi length and width wise but about the same thickness. I don't know how many watts it uses at idle or under load, but the included power supply is only 18 watts, so I'd imagine it's probably no more than double the pi if not less.
The real kicker is that it comes with 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 64GB emmc. The emmc isn't user replaceable, but I'm not sure about the RAM. It's also a Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor, so x86_64 instead of ARM so you can run any distro and use normal packages.
I got it yesterday. It comes with Windows 10 home, but it's easy enough to wipe it and install Linux. WiFi appears to be the same as in the raspberry pi 4 from what I gather. You can increase storage via an SD card or USB (2 or 3). I installed arch on it with no problems. I haven't installed X yet, because I haven't decided on a desktop.
By the time you add power supply, storage, a case etc. to a 4GB raspberry pi 4, you're probably not far off from the price, but definitely lacking in power, speed and available distros/software compared to the Beelink.
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