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[–] phx 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The big issue with laptops tends to be cooling, but something with a decent CPU and enough RAM can still do a good job since in many cases you're not tapping the graphics chip/core, which is often the biggest source of heat.

That said, for small personal services even an 8GB Pi4 can do a pretty decent job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pi4 8GB is not easy to get these days

[–] phx 1 points 2 years ago

Ain't that the truth. Pi4 anything over 1Gb especially seems difficult to source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use PiZero W to host a couple of small services in my home. DHCP, DNS, etc (the usual).