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This was my conclusion too. Ended up getting a certified refurb i5 Lenovo with SSD and 16 GB of ram from Micro Center for $350. Yes, more expensive than the pi+

This was my conclusion too. Ended up getting a certified refurb i5 Lenovo with SSD and 16 GB of ram from Micro Center for $350. Yes, more expensive than the pi+ hard drive solution but still pretty cheap overall.

Avamander 7y ago
+1 an used laptop might use a bit more power but it has an enclosure, built-in UPS, cooling and SSD, has an x86_64 CPU and probably better specs. An all-around better choice for many many purposes.
- bluedino 7y ago
  Hard to add additional NIC (or two) to a laptop.
  - oarsinsync 7y ago
    Similar options on a laptop as on an RPi, at least (so, USB?)
  - mceachen 7y ago
    I'm using a USB Ethernet dongle in my laptop. They're cheap and Linux seems to support all of them these days.