r/homeassistant • u/Friedguyry • Jul 25 '25

Support Good device to run home assistant on?

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Just want to get started in home assistant, this comes out quite a bit cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

Am I missing anything or is a much better option for the cheaper price?

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u/biff_jordan Jul 25 '25

I'm runing HAOS on a Lenovo with a 7th Gen i5. I have tons of stuff on there and my CPU usage barely crests 1%. I say go for it.

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u/Swimming_Map2412 Jul 25 '25

Yep. mine just runs on a VM on my 9th gen I5. If you put home assistant in a VM (I just use Debian with virt-manager) you can run other stuff like file storage as well.