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Exactly. Brand new Intel N100 (Four 12th gen efficiency cores) desktops are selling for ~$120.

Intel 6th gen desktops can be purchased for the ~$30 he spent on the phone and don't require the many hours he spent trying to boot an OS on it.

64-bit Core 2 Duo machines are still perfectly usable and people will pay you to take them.

Instead, I got one with a different CPU architecture, at a comparable price which was my goal.

The unlock took the most amount of time.

The larger point is a comparison of AXP64, and ARM64. AMD64 hardware is pretty much easy to find, and not all that interesting.

Not to mention it takes up no space.