Great for anyone who needs something cheap to run a home media server on. You’ll need to pony up more for some extra storage though.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been looking at something for plugging into the TV, probably to use the web browser for streaming services (and skip the ad-infested & buggy built-in TV apps).

    An Optiplex 9020 (4 years younger) is about half the price shipped. Single-threaded performance is a little bit slower (15% or so, Intel didn’t innovate much in these years without competition) but there are 6 cores instead of 4 (won’t help with watching videos, but might help for encoding?).

    Do you think I’d go wrong with the cheaper option? I’m not planning on doing any video transcoding, just watching.

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      The only thing about the Optiplex is the HDD instead of a SSD. But it’d be fit for purpose if all you’re doing is using it as an internet browsing PC. Just probably don’t install Win11 on it.