GETTING INTO INTEL
Les Pounder
works with groups such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation to help boost people’s maker skills.
At Tom’s Hardware, I’ve recently been testing single-board computers (SBCs) that use Intel CPUs rather than the Arm processors found in the Raspberry Pi. The Intel N100, an Alder Lake N-based CPU, has four cores, four threads and turbos to 3.4GHz. Sure, it uses a little more power – 6W versus the Raspberry Pi 5’s 2.7W at idle – but the inclusion of an Intel CPU means that essentially we have a tiny desktop PC that can run any of the Linux distributions that we love. And yes, it can also run Windows 11, should you really want to.