

Bad news: Home Assistant Yellow is not ready yet and won’t be shipping until later this year. We’re fixing that by creating Home Assistant Yellow, a device with Home Assistant pre-installed. Home Assistant is easy in day-to-day use, and we’ve been spending a lot of time streamlining this experience.ĭue to the global chip shortage and supply chain issues, it’s currently very difficult to get a device that runs Home Assistant.

It can function fully without an internet connection. It is absolutely not marketing, but will seem like just hype if it is overkill for your needs.Home Assistant is a home automation platform with a focus on privacy and local control. The startup time of the 2020 is MUCH quicker, and the big difference becomes apparent when you start doing multiple things at the same time, or something power intensive like video editing or graphic design. Just surfing the web or watching youtube is very similar on both of them. I also have the garage computer which is a 2014 Macbook Air, i-5, SSD, and 8GB of RAM. I have a 2020 Macbook Air with M1 chip, and 16GB of RAM. It really depends on what you are doing with your computer, but a machine with more memory, a faster processor, and more storage space will have the capacity to do more tasks at the same time over one that has lesser specs. It's like saying a 4 cylinder car is good enough because after a few years a V8 will seem slow. It is just used as a garage computer for looking up DIY videos, parts, etc and it works great for that. I have a 2014 Macbook Air with an SSD, i-5, and 8GB of RAM. The SSD and more RAM is what really makes the difference over a computer with a regular spinning hard drive and maybe 4GB or 8GB of RAM. An i-5 with an SSD and 12GB of RAM isn't so bad specs wise.
