ThinkCentre M70q

i've been down this road with the whole n100 vs used tiny pc thing. what helped me was grabbing an Intel NUC 11 with Core i5 when prices dropped. the quick sync on 11th gen handles 4k hdr transcoding without breaking a sweat and you get dual channel ram. for under 300 eur look for used Lenovo ThinkC

Your bottleneck isn't network or storage — it's transcoding. The Pi 4 doesn't have hardware video acceleration that Plex can use, so when a mobile client can't direct-play (mismatched codec, screen size, bandwidth limit), the Pi software-transcodes and 4 cores aren't enough. That's why "optimize for

That's a great price for a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 Tiny. There's a fair number that is coming out on the market from early lease, as IT departments haven't been satisfied with how hot 12th/13th/14th Gen Intel CPUs have become. As an example, the 10nm Core i5-14400T has a PBP of 35W, yet a MTP

Unfortunately, that's the point. Two things you'll need to understand. Lenovo as already tuned their motherboard for an optimum thermal curve based on the Alder Lake CPU installed. They're working against six sh•tty 10nm Golden Cove Performance-cores @ idle, something Lenovo has been fighting since