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.
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RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks agoWhere do people buy thin clients for cheap? Ebay?
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Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. I was just looking at a (dell) wyse 3040 and wyse 5070.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Waow I can get one of those for $50…
Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. 3040 is somewhere ram but 5070 has upgradable sodimm
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Very important info thank you.