Netbook or small Laptop

[cod3poet]

Looking for something small so that I can hide it behind a monitor. And want it to run silent.

I don't need anything fantastic the reason for it is minimal arch so the display does not need to work. Just looking to have an always on machine so I can use it to wake the other computers in the house, and to host some other services like SMB for some USB drives.

Min 2GB of RAM and that's it. HD does not matter as it's probably going to boot off of usb anyway.

[William Park]

- Asus VivoStick, Intel Compute Stick -- they look like big USB stick.
- Intel NUC, Zotac ZBOX, Gigabyte BRIX -- they are barebone, just add memory and harddisk.

[cod3poet]

I know we use NUC's in production, not a fan. I'm looking for something old and used and cheap.

[buster]

What about a Raspberry? Pretty cheap.

https://www.alliedelec.com/raspberry-pi-asm-1900039-21/71013339/?mkwid=JAMfx9id&pcrid=77034550096409&pkw=Raspberry%20Pi%20Asm-1900039-21&pmt=bb&pdv=c&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=Raspberry%20Pi%20Asm-1900039-21&msclkid=0aaa422ac3e0137db80718a6f43da71d

[ssfc72]

Oops!  That price is just for the case, Buster. :-)

[buster]

However, the Raspberry is a pretty good idea right? (I didn't actually  read the add. Just saw a picture and the name.

[William Park]

I know we use NUC's in production, not a fan. I'm looking for something old and used and cheap.

In that case, KWLUG (Kitchener/Waterloo Linux Users Group) has very close relationship with Computer Recycling @ The Working Centre <https://www.theworkingcentre.org/computer-recycling/178>.  They have shit load of old laptops.  Is an old Thinkpad good enough?  If I remember correctly, it should be below $50.  I can ask.

[cod3poet]

For the Cost of $50 I'd be better off getting 2 used raspberry pi's. I am a huge proponent of up-cycling. All the tech I have in the house was purchased used, short of my SSD and Video card.

[Jason]

For the Cost of $50 I'd be better off getting 2 used raspberry pi's. I am a huge proponent of up-cycling. All the tech I have in the house was purchased used, short of my SSD and Video card.

Same here! It wasn't about a great love of being Green (though I try to as much as I can) though, it was/is on account of being poor!

The computer I'm using right now for my desktop was given to me by a former member - Arend Getkate. It was the machine he lovingly called Frankenstein because it has hard drives hanging out outside the case, though now it's in a HUGE Kandalf case. The only thing in it that I paid for is the video card.

My wife's computer is my old computer which I bought from Reboot originally for $49 and upgraded the CPU for another $30 and I added a new SSD for her. I also paid for her video card too, although both cards are easily 5 years old now.

My phone and tablet were new though but not bought outright and only because they had a deal going on. We don't even have a TV! We just watch movies or tv shows on my wife's 22" screen!