Home Assitant Hardware alternative for Raspberry PI

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Rasberry Pi is Sold out and I seached a low power consumption alternative

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@sudden glen and I both just bought Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny type machines. 1.5” by 7” by 7”; usually intel i5 with ssd. About us$100 refurb

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eg https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/334203502529

[sudden glen]

lenovo "tiny" on ebay, paid $150 USD (tax+shipping) for i5-6500t unit with 256 m2 ssd + 8 gig. There are others, Dell SFF 3040/3070 units, and hp something. - https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m900-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-guide/ - https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/

mine is idling around 10watts running proxmox w/ HASS running in a VM.