• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I got a ThinkCentre M700 with an i7-6700, 16gb of ram and a 256gb SSD for $70 total. It’s really hard to get a phone with anywhere near that value for money.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      exactly, even if we’re talking buying brand new modern desktop hardware. The sheer benefit you gain of having an sata port, and being able to stuff an 18TB exos drive on it, for example, will immediately pay itself off in terms of what cloud storage would cost, while also not being limited to your internet uplink speeds. You could easily run 10gig if you really wanted to. Although realistically, 2.5gb is going to be more apt.