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Strongly recommend looking at used Dell OptiPlex Micros. I have 2 5060Ms, 35W Core i3 8th gen, 2 RAM slots (8GB commonly included), NVMe slot (256GB commonly in
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
Strongly recommend looking at used Dell OptiPlex Micros. I have 2 5060Ms, 35W Core i3 8th gen, 2 RAM slots (8GB commonly included), NVMe slot (256GB commonly included), SATA slot, RTC, for about $150. Considering Raspberry Pi prices and the absurdly greater performance, it was a no-brainer for me.
- dfghjjbhvg 4y agointeresting. migth be a good IoT+HTPC+wifiRouter replacer combo!
- superkuh 4y agoMost people are buying rpis because they can throw some boot image on it made for the rpi and have things just work. A regular computer, no matter how much better in performance, doesn't just work. For example: you can't just throw a Birdnet-Pi (https://birdnetpi.com/ https://birdnetpi.com/) image on a normal PC and run it. There is plain Birdnet but it doesn't have any of the automation or the web interface for use Birdnet-Pi does. Instead it's pages worth of complex multi-argument commands you'd have to customize and you'd have to port the web interface yourself. Since most people want rpis for little projects like this a normal PC massively increases the complexity.