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What second hand PC/Laptop should I buy for home-labbing. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have never homelabbed, and this is going to be my first experience. I want to set up a home server. My current goals are to set up a gallery using Immich, an ad blocker/DNS using Pi-hole, and a cloud service.

I want you to suggest what second-hand PC or laptop I should get. I researched a bit and found out that a PC is better because of 24/7 reliability, better cooling, no risk of laptop battery swelling, easy RAM and storage expandability, and low idle power consumption.

What I think the specs should be for me is 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. And my budget is 10k INR.

I want to hear your thoughts. Thank you! :)

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[–] 1 point 3 days ago

with that said, you want to ensure that whatever laptop model you're looking at supports battery bypass charging

how can one tell if it is supported? is there a list of charging controllers or something?

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