Mini PCs & single-board
The list below comes from the in-repo sample catalogue rather than live inventory. Prices were checked against Canadian retail on the date shown per item; stock counts are placeholders, not real availability.
Barebones means no memory, no drive and no operating system. A Pi board means exactly the board. Both are noted per item so nothing arrives as a surprise.
Raspberry Pi
The 4 GB Pi 5. Enough for Pi-hole, Home Assistant, a print server or a light Docker host. It needs a power supply, storage and cooling, none of which are in the box.
$153.95
In stock
GIGABYTE
A barebones x86 mini PC with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth already fitted. Barebones means no memory, no drive and no operating system, so budget for all three; the payoff is choosing them yourself.
Unverified: Memory and storage slot counts, supported capacities and port layout were not stated in the retailer listing. Confirm from the GIGABYTE spec sheet before advising on an upgrade.
$239.00
In stock
Raspberry Pi
The 8 GB Pi 5, and the version to pick if it will run several containers at once or double as a small desktop. Roughly three times the CPU throughput of a Pi 4.
$244.95
In stock
Raspberry Pi
A complete Pi 5 desktop in one box: board, case, official keyboard and mouse, 27 W supply, both HDMI cables, a preloaded microSD card and the beginner guide. Connect a monitor and it runs.
Unverified: The bundled microSD card is listed as carrying the 32-bit OS image. Confirm which image actually ships before advising a customer who wants 64-bit.
$280.00
In stock
GIGABYTE
The N250 barebones BRIX, a step up from the N150 on the same build-it-yourself terms. A quiet always-on box for a media front end, a small server or a point-of-sale terminal.
Unverified: Memory and storage slot counts, supported capacities and port layout were not stated in the retailer listing.
$299.00
Seen on sale at $199.00 on 2026-09-27
In stock
Raspberry Pi
The 16 GB Pi 5, for a workload that actually needs the memory rather than the cores: a larger container stack, a self-hosted database, or compiling on the board itself.
$426.95
In stock
The parts a single-board computer needs before it does anything useful. Cooling and a proper power supply are not optional extras on a Pi 5.
Raspberry Pi
Clip-on aluminium heatsink with a temperature-controlled blower. A Pi 5 under sustained load will throttle without active cooling, so treat this as part of the board rather than an extra.
$7.00
In stock
Raspberry Pi
The official 27 W supply. A Pi 5 raises its own USB port budget from roughly 600 mA to 1.6 A only when it detects a PD supply of this class, so a generic charger quietly costs you peripheral power.
$16.95
In stock
Raspberry Pi
Brings the Pi 5 PCIe lane out to an M.2 slot, so an NVMe drive can replace the microSD card as the boot device. Around 500 MB/s, and a far longer service life than a card under constant writes.
$16.95
In stock
Before you buy
The things worth knowing before spending money, including where the expensive option is not the better one.
Without a heatsink and fan it will throttle under sustained load, and the benchmark you read will not be the performance you get. Budget the cooler in from the start rather than diagnosing slowness later.
A Pi 5 only raises its USB port current budget from roughly 600 mA to 1.6 A when it detects a proper Power Delivery supply. A generic charger will boot the board and then quietly starve whatever you plug into it.
A microSD card under constant writes — logs, a database, a container host — will wear out, usually without warning. An M.2 HAT and a small NVMe drive costs little and removes the most common cause of a dead Pi project.
A barebones mini PC ships as a chassis, board and cooler. Memory, storage and a licensed operating system are all on you. That is often cheaper and always more flexible than a prebuilt, but price the whole thing before comparing.
