Enterprise thin clients are cheaper and faster, though they use more power with x86/64 cpus
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cannedtuna@lemmy.world 14 hours agoYeah nowadays they’re like $100 for even the most basic unit
Cort@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 13 hours ago
Where do people buy thin clients for cheap? Ebay?
Cort@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yep. I was just looking at a (dell) wyse 3040 and wyse 5070.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Waow I can get one of those for $50…
accideath@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Pretty much.
A few years ago I got an hp t620 thin client with an older AMD embedded quad core cpu for like 25€. I ran my home server on that for a while until I upgraded to something bigger.
You can still get the same device for pretty much the same price. You can even upgrade storage and RAM fairly easily (and cheaply, since it’s DDR3 and m.2 SATA).
And if CPU-Monkey is to be believed, it has about the same CPU performance as a RasPi 4 and 4x the graphics performance.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Raspberry Pi B+ on AdaFruit for $29.95
I agree with you that it sucks that the latest gen affect $45 anymore, but they still make and sell a $30 computer. If anyone can do better I definitely want to know.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 10 hours ago
You can get a pi 5 with 1 GB of RAM for $42 at Micro Center still.