My current setup is an old MacBook woth 2 external HDDs, and I am almost happy with it, for now. I just saw this mini PC on Amazon and I am considering buying it, just to try out a new thing. I think it is cheap (~22 USD).
What I am worried about is that this much memory and storage might make it almost unusable. I was thinking of hosting some minor services, like remark42, shynet or vaultwarden. What else do you think I can host? If my mind changes, I will also try it with a desktop environment and try to connect it to my 4K Android TV.
Here are some specs, if you don’t want to visit the webpage:
That isn’t a PC, it is a thin client. Thin clients don’t do any heavy lifting like running apps, they only have RAM and memory to run the software that connects to the centralized server that does the actual work.
For example, if you wanted to use a spreadsheet application to type something up this would connect to the centralized computer that is running the spreadsheet application.
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That isn’t a PC, it is a thin client. Thin clients don’t do any heavy lifting like running apps, they only have RAM and memory to run the software that connects to the centralized server that does the actual work.
For example, if you wanted to use a spreadsheet application to type something up this would connect to the centralized computer that is running the spreadsheet application.
On that note used decommissioned thin clients can make nice servers.