“The whole thing gets extremely hot, extremely quickly and the only way you’re going to be able to keep it somewhat under control is if you heavily throttle its power targets, in which case, what’s the point?”
The Radxa X4 puts an Intel N100 on a small board and hands the 40-pin GPIO header to an RP2040. The bundled thermal pad crumbled on install, and the board reset the moment a benchmark hit it over PoE. WiFi failed out of the box on Debian and Windows. Radxa shipped the hardware and left the finishing work to the reviewers.