Odroid or budget (Intel) Mini-PC?!

Hardware
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I’m just about the start building a home automation system from scratch.

Here in Europe the chepest Home Assistant blue (that’s currently in stock) is ~240€.

There are many mini-PC:s on the market for same or less.
Like this or this one

Would there be any actual benefits to get HA Blue or a basic Odroid-N2+ over any of these mini PC:s? (Installing Linux + HA in a docker presumably)

Thanks!

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An older laptop (battery backup, keyboard and monitor) + Proxmox is always a good option.

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Go with a PC that can be upgraded easily. Furthermore, you can run Debian Linux or Proxmox to have those cores into different VM