There is a local tech, college, government ewaste facility near me.

I was recently bidding on fifteen 2u rack servers, fully equipped ready to plug and play essentially, but 5 years old. The entire lot sold for 700 bucks.

A second lot sold at the same time, twelve of exactly the same server slightly newer but less storage (only 50TB) that lot sold for 900.

edit Just Checked currently with 9h left there is a lot 25 OptiPlex computers (sans HD) for 135 dollars.

My college doesn't actually resell computers, but that's because a local prison has a program where the inmates refurbish old equipment to send out to low income schools. But, considering most of this equipment won't be usable, I expect us to start selling it.

Based on the prices we sell other technology for, probably somewhere under $50. My guess would be $20.

I still have some stuff from a local oil and gas company, a collage, my local library and the national land survey org. I paid all of nothing for them, since these cost them money to dispose of.

Don't expect HDDs in them but surplus equipment is great.

always have in mind that an intruder only needs one unlocked door to enter your home. google ads are known to have been infested with malware several times...

Hmmm, I guess it depends on how good the sales team is selling the new PCs. The line would be tpm on the board I guess, but after working in the industry I know that would not stop a sales team from having them replaced.

I would assume that you can get a workstation from about 4 or 5 years ago in general.

looking at the video it seems to work nearly as i expected. (changing the iso shouldn't be much of an issue) although i think it's a nice project, i don't think it's worth taking too much effort on this. "Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime" - you can teach a 10yo to install linux on any machine... it's not that hard.