We were comparing the N100s not to the Pi5 but to this $98 Wo-We AMD: https://www.wo-we.com/collections/mini-pc/products/mini-pc-a...
The grandparent comment said you could get an N100 for the same price, but they are all more expensive no matter how you look at it.
Oops I overlooked that discussion, sorry.
That is sure a nice system for the money! Wow. I will check if I can get those in Europe.
Add them up and a Quad-Core N100 becomes equivalent. Here they're on Amazon for 180€ with 16GB ram and 512 GB storage. And cheaper options with less storage and ram (usually coupled with the sightly slower N95 chip)
It's not a pi and if you want to integrate it into electronics a pi is much better but for the "small mini server" usecase I don't see the benefit of going for a pi anymore.