Show HN: MiniPCs.zip (charting the pareto frontier of MiniPCs)
Quick blogpost [here](https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/) - the overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized).
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The same PC is now shipping with a 480 ssd but is otherwise the same and selling for $300 - $319 depending on the day.
What is yellow? What is green? What is blue? Are they relative to their CPU column? Relative to the pricing row? Absolute?
Oh - and colors are grey-blue to red, with red being pareto optimal
It's great that you have the data. I'm sure that took a lot of time to obtain. Spending a few more percent of your total time making the presentation of the data intuitive to others is almost certainly the highest ROI thing you can do at this point, if you want your site to be useful enough to get enough visitors to pay for the cost of acquiring the data.
Feel free to tell me that red is the lowest Pareto value and that's why you made the frontier red, or whatever. I'll still respond that the details of the presentation matters enormously to adoption, and the current presentation is very far from optimally intuitive to those of us who didn't personally develop the data.
If that's the intuition you want, then wouldn't it be natural to use the blackbody radiation spectrum (a.k.a. "color temperature")? Red hot -> white hot -> blue hot.
Disagree. Yellow as a progression away from the green/blue (that fade away into gray) towards red is quite obvious.
I get asked this a lot, so here's my defense!
ideally it should've been killed the moment it was created to become a lesson for everyone else
https://ohmyz.sh
But the main problem is I can't seem to reliably click on a node, it works occasionally but if I find one I want to click on, it either takes ten taps or some I couldn't just open what so ever.
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.