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.
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.
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.
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