t740

HP T740's are still ~$75 on eBay, add dual or quad port low profile NIC. It's good for 25gbit, if I remember correctly.

You can get a hp t740 for even cheaper,there are even more cheaper alternatives than this but this one was perfect for me,not too expensive and not too low powered Idk whats the pricing rn but got it for 12k + 3k 1gx4 port network card with 8gb 2400mhz ram + 64gb emmc which i later replaced with a s

Depending on your needs, an n100 or n150 based mini-pc will be far lower wattage at idle and probably at base level use than most of the tiny, mini, micro. N305 or n355 will give lots more power if you decide you need to have that. i226 is normally the flavor of the day for ports on these router sty

Yes, you can. I run CentOS Stream 10 on a HP T740 with AMD Ryzen and embedded graphics, and while it's slow (because the hardware is slow) it runs fine. All I did was installing Steam from the flatpack repo. I also run another, faster system with Nvidia GPU, but that's on Alma Linux 10 because the N

The "Catch 22" to ChromeOS Flex is firmware compatibility between the OS and the PC. ChromeOS Flex Certified Models List Beyond that support the for the ChromeOS version and continued support is ad hoc for compatibility and long term use. A perfect example is the HP t740 thin client. Its been certif

BYOD and lifetime software license or even monthly subscription. Used hardware is so cheap these days, and I could easily SFP+ my own hardware. I moved to a unified gateway just to get a sfp+ module to remove my ATT AIO gateway/modem crap. I have tons of HP T740 thin clients for cheap.

$70 HP T740 on eBay, add dual or quad port NIC. Dual port 10GbE (not multi gig) NICs are less than $15 on eBay. If you're ok with 6x 1GbE the Cloudgenix Ion 2000 is $20 on eBay.

I have three n95 with 12GB ram and see mini-pc that I bought for this, but the five Rpm 3b+ just fell in my lap and I want to try using them for this. Sometimes struggling with far lower end devices teaches important concepts, things you would learn if horsepower is essentially limitless. I'd also r

I had bought 2 hp T740 thin clients. Price was golden at that time.

I have an hp t740 that's been 24/7bfor half a decade and has been completely reliable. Honestly, I haven't even had to pull it apart and clear dust/re-thermal paste