Shill me a mini pc from aliexpress.
>>106441389Well, since you are a cumsoomer, you will be happy to know you can make the exact same purchase in 6months when it breaks.
I just bought a thinkpad and unplugged the battery, can use it as home server and laptop when you want.
>>106441389why not go for an sbc with a printed case and save money on alijeets reselling it to you
>>106441400this
>>106441389m4 mac mini
>>106441389I wish that front USB-C port were also 40Gbps
>>106441389>no thunderbolt>no multiple usb 4 both on front/back>no oculink
>>106441389Intell is a small struggling company and their common N95-N150 cpu's are energy efficent and quiet. You can get youself a proper made in America CPU in a box computer from China for less than $100 all the while protecting US manufacturing.
>>106441389At least the power button is on the side.
>>106441684>protecting US manufacturingMy tax dollars already do that even though I don't want them to.
>>106441401>sbcarm sbc's are underpowered trash with no driversthey have completely different use cases to proper miniPCs, which range from celeron tier corpo TV-boxes to what is essentially high end laptop hardware
Electronics get less reliable over time so you're better of buying one new, than buying some used laptop even if the specs are better on paper.I bought one from MINIX to use it as a tv box.
>>106441389I'm using a Firebat.Not great, not terrible.
>>106441400Why would you unplug the built-in UPS?
>>106441389Get this instead OP>https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/byte
>>106441389Get one with dual 2.5gbe and Strix Halo cpu.
Need one with two nics ideally one 2.5gb for router purposes
>>106444098What's the catch?
>>106441389Just go to Craigslist or whatever and buy an used office machine.
>>106444098>ClevoMight as well just cut out the middleman and buy directly from China. You can skip out on the American backdoors that way (instead of getting both the Chinese and American ones).
>>106444229Optiplex's are pretty nice and easy to take apart too and so long as you've got i5 or i7 you run a pretty wide selection of old games just fine so long as your willing to forsake modern triple gAAAy slop (which I'm sure most people here are).>>106444154>What's the catch?You'll become a raging homosexual autist but that's not much of a problem for OP so whatever.>>106444295>Might as well just cut out the middleman and buy directly from China.I thought Clevo's were 'technically' Taiwanese (China minus communism) with with a mix of Mainland parts and Malay parts too because le Global Economy and out sourcing. Even cr-Apple doesn't do everything in house and rely's Worst Korea/SamSung for their soldered RAM and OLED displays.But yeah whatever you have a good point there.
