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Saw this Umbrel Home review:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/01/umbrel-home-review/

Still trying to decide between this and Start9 for my node upgrade. Opinions?

Neither, just run a bitcoin node on your laptop

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Plenty of very cheap refurbished laptops on the market more than capable of making a reliable node. Buy it without the garbage windows refurb license and install your favorite Linux distro.

My laptop is old with crappy specs. 16 MBs of ram is a big improvement.

You can buy a used laptop for cheaper than umbrel or start9

How much money would you save if you got a laptop with the same specs?

They don't make laptops as shitty as raspberry pis. You can spend like $300 and get something a million times better

I was thinking more about the StartOne that runs Intel, but yeah a used laptop is definitely better than a raspi

What do you so about the proprietary hardware tradeoffs when using or recommending old laptops over SBC? I thought raspberries just have one proprietary hardware component: the graphics chip. 🤦

i like an old sff pc as a server. a laptop is also nice, but this is the search i use on ebay. don't snipe me, please:

`(optiplex, thinkcentre) (tiny, micro) (i5, i7) -(3470,3570,4570,4590,4785,4570,4765,4785)`

i like to filter out the really old processors, as you can see.

bitcoin core terbaik = bitcoin core is the best