Comment by willglynn

I've had great results with N100 mini PCs including Power over Ethernet. Here's an N100, PoE, 2.5GBASE-T, case, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD for $129 refurbished:

https://refurbished.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-s100-...

I have zero applications where a Pi5 makes more sense than either a mini PC or a large microcontroller.