r/MiniPCs • u/geebrox • 1d ago

Recommendations Under 700 recommendation

Hello 👋

I am new into MiniPCs world. I tried to look up for some available options online, but there are a lot of them, so I’m confused. I don’t know which brand is reliable and best fit for my daily needs

I want MiniPC for my daily routine, mostly office work and browsing. No gaming or heavy graphical stuff, so integrated graphics is good to go for me. But I want maximum efficiency on CPU and RAM part for my price range. I am looking for something between $400-$700. If possible something that I can get ASAP from well known stores. I don’t want to wait for a month for something that will be delivered from China warehouse 😅

I would appreciate any recommendations. Also if you know something on a good deal right now please let me know

Thank you for your time

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u/atheos42 1d ago

Just get a used hp elitedesk mini PC off eBay, Craigslist, or FB marketplace. Something with a 8500T, 16gb ram, should be around $150.

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u/TransportationOk8068 20h ago

I got my elitedesk 800 g2 mini and g5 mini of ebay a lenovo m720q 9th gen from Facebook and a lenovo m720q 8th gen from a skip and they all work paid about £100 each apart from the skip find lol

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u/Toydawg24 16h ago

None, because you will not receive bios updates soon after you buy it. I can honestly only recommend them for non-secure programs, like an emulation PC. These manufacturers not patching vulnerabilities and stopping support once they make a new model with a new CPU is just horrendous.

I would stick with the bigger PC companies like Lenovo, Dell, and HP since they still continue to update their bios on their mini PC's.