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I was thinking in buying a raspberry for a small home utility server , I also looked at intel compute stick (and related products). I realised that compute stick was at the same price as a windows 10 tablet with 1G ram.
What I want to run (for now) is a proxy server which I will occasionally use to access it from the outside.
Can I think of a x86 windows 10/8 as a pc/server and install utility services on it?
What would the TDP and power consumption be per month for a tablet with wifi on all the time and services runing on it?(would it be greater than 5$ per month droplet on digital ocean?)
Ovidiu Buligan
Posted 2016-03-13T15:32:40.247
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In order to have a proxy, you need the traffic going 'through' the device via two network interfaces. I don't know of any inexpensive tablets with Wifi and an Ethernet port. Maybe a USB network dongle I guess.. – Kody Brown – 2016-03-13T17:26:44.643
Most recent Windows tablets are not the full Windows desktop OS so they won't run most of the server/services you will want. – Kody Brown – 2016-03-13T17:27:53.263
The cost to operate a tablet is less that a normal PC, but definitely more than a Raspberry Pi, which under full load would cost (me) about $4-$5 per year. – Kody Brown – 2016-03-13T17:29:49.390