WiFi Enabled Dual Core Desktop PC, 4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Windows 10 (Renewed)

ronrob You can get secondhand laptops for around £50 which are just as powerful if not more powerful and they will be much more power efficient, this Dell likely has a 300W PSU or more plus you have the display power. It probably happily uses 150-220W most of the time. Just the chip itself appears to have a TDP of 65W. In contrast a low power laptop like a Celeron N4020 which are cheap to buy is only 6W TDP and that will have more powerful graphics too included in that TDP rating. However I can see the charm of a PC like this its a bit retro and its too heavy to be taken anywhere which means it is secure in the home.

If you used it 15 hours a week it will probably cost a £1 a week in electricity i.e. £50 a year. If you used it for 5 years before replacing then of course that is £250. In contrast a low power laptop would with perhaps an average of 20W consumption would be around 10p a week or £5 a year or £25 for 5 years.

Something like this is £43 after you take off the 15% code and add postage.

www.cclonline.com/ge346-c-geo-geobook-110-11-6-inch-laptop-intel-celeron-n4020-4gb-ram-64gb-emmc-hd-1366-x-768-display-intel-uhd-graphics-600-wi-fi-bt-windows-11-home-in-s-mode-412010/

It uses a 14Nm chipset which is decent, is much faster with much better graphics, same memory although much faster, it only has a 64GB emmc drive but that is incredibly fast compared to a hard drive and you can expand storage with a micro SD card. It runs Windows 11 S but you can switch it to a full version of Windows 11 for free. You can run it as a desktop if you want just use the hdmi output to a tv and use an external keyboard and mouse.

Latest000 You can get similar PCs in fact even better desktop PCs on freecycle. People assume they have no value if they are 10 years old or more and give them away. I mean when you think about the postage, amazon fees and VAT the seller isn't getting a lot of money here.

Also less proprietary older PCs often have more powerful power supply's, more standard motherboards and will take more memory. You might be able to get a free PC off freecycle and then add one of those cheap Radeon 8GB graphics cards from aliexpress at around £40. They are about 5 teraflops of performance so you can end up with a decent entry level gaming PC for similar money to this. The RX 580 is about 4x the FP64 performance of a entry level RX 3050 mobile chipset gaming laptop around £600 although about the same for FP32 performance just slightly stronger but of course it has 8GB of fast GDDR memory too and the Nvidia chipset typically only has a half that or less and many such laptops have restricted memory expansion. Gaming performance on a budget is where desktops make a lot more sense. If you are not into gaming and like to spend less on electricity then a laptop is a better option.

www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-580-2048sp.c3321

www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3050-mobile.c3788

HopeThisHelps They probably will work but in slomo mode. The description states it is running the 64bit version of Windows 10 so should be compatible with most apps. However with only 4GB memory and a mechanical hard drive it will be very slow. Aliexpress often do 64GB sata SSD drives for around £5. Fitting that to the computer and transferring the operating system to that plus enabling virtual memory of lets say 8GB on that drive will massively speed up this computer.

www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005217753652.html

If you need a SATA to IDE adapter;

www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005651490950.html

Windows 10 LTSC would be another good option and use of debloating software.

neilc1 sorry but have to disagree. It'd be horrendously slow