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What sort of thing would you use one for?
Sorry meant to include that in my post but every time I try and write something my kid does something causing immediate intervention.
In order, use case would be:
1) MS Office PC - word processing, PP, xls.
2) Linux for when not having to do work.
3) either recommissioned at some point as a workshop PC for YouTube videos and googling or 4)
4) Some sort of NAS thing if I every get round to proving my use case RPi budget one....although if I'm being honest I probably just want 3) and am trying to refine the sales pitch to my OH.
All of this assumes I can at some point re-access my office and get a screen.
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I mean, I'm sure it'll be fine to do those things but it will do them sluuggishly. If you could find something more like the i5 that @Dramatic_Hammer uses you'd be much happier with the outcome I think.
They're rock solid machines. The one in your eBay link is particularly impressive because of the shielding that the heatsink provides. The thing is, these are probably only for sale because a company somewhere has decided that they aren't good enough for business use any more. I.e too slow for "MS Office PC - word processing, PP, xls". Or even too slow to run as a thin client. I'd be a bit wary.
Stonehedge
I rolled out a few thousand of these as thin clients for a UK gov organisation a while back. Well, an earlier model but pretty much the same thing. It hadn't even crossed my mind that somebody would use as a PC.
What sort of thing would you use one for?