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I've been fairly impressed by a couple of Beelinks Mini S12 I purchased a couple of weeks back. Intel N95 CPU, 16 GB RAM, 500GB NVMe. More than enough for checking email.

One was immediately wiped and I installed Debian 12. The other was wiped and I installed Windows 10 Pro. Both seemed to just work.

Hard to beat for less than $200 CAD.

Main home server/NAS is a Ryzen 7 Beelink with 64GB. Works a treat. Fan is audible when you're hammering the CPU (doing a large backup, unpacking downloaded media, running a Minecraft server with multiple users) but other than that it's not audible from ~5ft away.

This, I've been pretty happy with it as well, it's so much easier to set up as a kubernetes node than a RPi.

I have a few of these that we use to test "low hardware resource" deployment scenarios, running Ubuntu. So far so good.