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  • The mobile experience is horrible otherwise really awesome.
    by thomasfromcdnjs
  • Thanks for the feedback - horrible how? It works fine on my Android but someone else said similar that uses iPhone, just not sure exactly what the issues was
    by yathern
  • Failed to load listings (500)
    by Gathering6678
  • Fixed!
    by yathern
  • Very cool site. Thanks for making this. Would be awesome to have data on energy consumption as well. :-)
    by flo123456
  • Nice work. Clustering around N95/N100/N150 visible.
    by dthakur
  • It's wild that the 128GB RAM machines have completely disappeared. I feel like I'm in possession of a sacred item, having bought a Ryzen 9 system just a month or two before the craze hit.
    by ricardobeat
  • It has been hard to find 64gb sticks since they launched ime. I had much better luck building 96gb machines. Haven’t looked since the ram crisis.
    by Computer0
  • It would help if you actually explained what the color means.

    What is yellow? What is green? What is blue? Are they relative to their CPU column? Relative to the pricing row? Absolute?

    by yodon
  • Colors are distance to the pareto frontier for the given setting for "dealscope"! Easily noticed when axis and color are set to the same dimension (EG CPU) - but setting to different things allows you to visualize two dimensions (three, with price) without needing a 3D chart. I found it really useful to find outliers, but I realize it's a bit nonstandard!

    Oh - and colors are grey-blue to red, with red being pareto optimal

    by yathern
  • Nice homage to MiniPCs - I have a fanless N150 box with usb-c HDD as a carefree NAS/docker host for years.
    by tomaskafka
  • I like the little Mini PCs.

    I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus.

    The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's hard to get them as low as some of the bigger vendor devices.

    The M5 plus sometimes resets its fTPM and won't boot without user input until that is resolved.

    I can get the nucbox to idle around 4-5w and the M5 plus idles closer to 8w.

    Most of the BIOS options are hidden or obscured for power saving.

    The worst offender though is Beelink which idles at closer to 30w in the GTi14.

    by ectoloph
  • Why do you use a TLD that is commonly blocked?
    by yourusername
  • We run https://aero.zip, works fine, not once anyone complained about it being blocked. There was a study somewhere that .zip TLD actually gets less malicious registrations compared to other TLDs.
    by pypt
  • Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious
    by pockybum522
  • This is so cool. Thanks for doing this. I was able to get the Optiplex 7050 with the i5-6500T and 8GB of RAM (no SSD) for $40 USD about 2 years ago, shocked it's $100 USD now! I brought 8 for some reason, this makes me feel better that I at least purchased it during the glut.
    by spelk
  • This is extremely useful and cool. I dream of having visualizations like this for anything I buy that has specifications.
    by pockybum522
  • The same N150 CPU mini PC with 12GB RAM I bought on Amazon a year ago seems to have considerably increased in price, as a result of the RAM price surge... Even though what's soldered onto its motherboard is probably the cheapest possible ddr4-2666 or similar.
    by walrus01
  • For sure - prices are bizarre right now - though if you sort by memory, there's some holdout units that have like 32GB of memory for $250 (though other poor stats)
    by yathern
  • I bought 2 Beelink s12 PCs just under 3 years ago and paid $254 total for both. (N95, 8gb ram, 256 ssd)

    The same PC is now shipping with a 480 ssd but is otherwise the same and selling for $300 - $319 depending on the day.

    by thekevan