DataDrake That's really good. 512GB SSDs are so damn cheap nowadays, you can get a samsung evo for around $50. How much RAM does it have?

      I run one of those beasties with a server distro (headless). I've ran Ubuntu on it originally, it's currently FreeBSD as I felt that was even less likely to be a target (server is internet facing and used as firewall, running OpenSense).

        I am running Solus as a music server using a NUC powered by a Celeron J3455. It's a fun little 10W box, web browsing is servicable, GIMP performance is about what you can expect. No 2 HDMIs though, but HDMI+VGA for that 2nd monitor. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc/kits/nuc6cayh.html Install a nice SATA SSD and some RAM and you are good to go. These things are on sale all the time where I live, you can easily get the barebone for around 120$/€.

          DataDrake : Pretty good … but pretty "heavy" 😁
          In all these specs, I can't see any information about consumption. You know ?

          I may repeat myself perhaps but the consumption criterion is very important, my installation will be led in the near future to run with solar energy.

          dbarron : Oh you interested me ! Any heating problems with a long time use ? Instability ?

          broozar : Good point ! I didn't know this reference (and yes HDMI and VGA is OK). I'm taking notes ! 😉

                  DansLeRuSH About the consumption, how many watts are we talking about, tops? That would be the key to choose a PC. As @broozar said, a 10W would be great, but the Ryzen 2400G @DataDrake posted there has 65W TDP and it's REALLY efficient
                  I know the N4100 has a ridiculous 6W TDP, but I fear it isn't "futureproof" enough, if you're going to code and play with web interfaces.
                  Jusy my 2 cents.

                      No Brent, that was one thing I kept an eye (and a finger) on, I've been pleased. It's a 7 watt I think (if memory serves) and it stays cooler than my old Broadcom wireless router that it somewhat replaced. I still have to have the wireless router for the wireless devices, but neither of them are working hard enough to be warm.
                      Plus (so far) OpenSense looks more stable than the dd-wrt routing software I was running on the broadcom.
                      I tried to use Linux initially and just felt like I was making a network mess, though I am now thinking maybe I should have tried IPFire and saw what I thought of that. But maybe diversity (BSD) is good?

                        DansLeRuSH I guess it depends on how much solar you have available. I don't have power figures, but I doubt mine draws more that 100W at full tilt and probably idles around 15-25W most of the time. And that's with a pretty beefy iGPU too. Usually the biggest problem with solar is not having enough battery capacity to store all the energy you collect. But if you are trying to live off of less than 1kW for anything other than camping, it's not going to be fun.

                        And I generally avoid any CPUs with less than 3000 points on Passmark. You can make it work, but things aren't nearly as smooth.

                            EQLucky Ideally I would like to have a machine under 30 watts. I have to add the power consumption of my screen (25 watts) and my XP-PEN (about 19 watts).

                            dbarron Yes diversity is good ! OK, thank you for your feedback it was informative 😃

                            DataDrake " Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster " Wirth's law

                            I know that but it's because I want to know now how Solus behaves on this type of material (and measure the scope). Note that I will always have my mounted PC next to it for what requires more computing power.

                            Here it's to write code lines over a whole day (with some mini graphic works) on a separate and economical installation 😊

                                  22 days later

                                  I use a HP Chromebox (G1 4GB RAM, 16 GB SSD, Celeron) with Solus Budgie and MrChromebox UEFI, works nice, has hdmi and displayport, do not know if 2 screens work at the same time, these boxes do not get ChromeOS updates anymore, so people might ditch them, so you can get them cheap!

                                    RaMa In the absolute, it's not a bad idea at all ! Especially since, as you say, there will be stock soon and especially scrapping ... it can even be a good action ! 🖖🤓 And for example, what is the most resource-consuming ?
                                    With what type of task does the box start to have trouble ?

                                      Not sure, watching netflix is no problem!

                                      I did a little compile test on this G1 chromebox, maybe you can try it on your pc too, to compare a little:

                                      ~ $ git clone https://github.com/nlsandler/write_a_c_compiler.git

                                      ~ $ cd write_a_c_compiler/

                                      ~ $ time ./test_compiler.sh /usr/bin/gcc

                                      ===================TOTAL SUMMARY====================
                                      59 successes, 115 failures

                                      real 0m21,468s
                                      user 0m14,705s
                                      sys 0m6,256s

                                      Or do you know something (simple) to "benchmark" better?