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Black_Hawk said:
Hello Folks,

I was wondering has anyone here bought Refurbished mini PC's like Lenovo Thinkcenters, HP EliteDesk from Amazon India? If yes, then how well have they worked and held up for simple computing tasks...please share your experience.

For example, these are the mini-PCs I'm referring to:

(Refurbished) HP EliteDesk 800 G4

(Refurbished) Lenovo Thinkcentre M710q Desktop Computer Mini PC
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I was eyeing m710q... But this doesn't have HDMI port and people say they don't recieved what mentioned, instead of built in wifi with antena they recieved with cheap dongle
 
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CasualGamer91 said:
I was eyeing m710q... But this doesn't have HDMI port and people say they don't recieved what mentioned, instead of built in wifi with antena they recieved with cheap dongle
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Even I'm eyeing this for a while now. I'll just have to use a DP to HDMI adapter and since I'll be connecting the unit with via LAN cable (to my TP-Link switch at home) think it'll do the job.
 
Black_Hawk said:
Even I'm eyeing this for a while now. I'll just have to use a DP to HDMI adapter and since I'll be connecting the unit with via LAN cable (to my TP-Link switch at home) think it'll do the job.
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Your electricity bill will be monthly +200rs with this one maybe.. 6100t is 30watt tdp and idles at 9watt and avg workload 15-20watt.. this is the reason stopping me to buy this.. my tplink does everything I want, has wireguard 200mbps throughput with openwrt, suck on openvpn, but wireguard is better.
Now i am thinking to go with intel n100 mini pc which has tdp of 6watt only.. adding ram and ssd another 4watt on total 10-15 watt on max load 5-10watt on avg, will save you bill in long term despite having more performance
 
I bought one (Lenovo i5 8th Gen, 16GB RAM and 256GB or 512GB SSD) for around 12/12.5k. It was supposed to come with an external Wifi dongle, but turns out the model I got had in-built wifi. Seemed to work fine in my testing and then has been on a shelf since months :)
 
I got a Lenovo M900 tiny from Amazon for my homelab. It has been running 24x7 for close to 2 years at this point.

I did not really use it for day-to-day computing much, but did install Windows on it just to test once. It was pretty smooth overall, and given the ones you are going for are much newer I think they would work fine.
 
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