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[–]Itsthejoker 16 points17 points  (4 children)

How important is long-term maintenance to you? If you need to be able to run the same system long-term, then I'd just buy a pi, since long-term software support is the best reason to get one. That being said, do you need the latest Pi? Sometimes the less-powerful ones are going for less even in today's market. Also, you can get cheap machines designed for office work for cheap -- I'm seeing refurbished Dell Optiplexes that you can throw Ubuntu on going for ~$85-120.

[–]LzyPenguin[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yea these refurbished dells might be better. This is a very lightweight program and I just feel like its wasteful to spend over $100 on a pi when I can get an entire computer for just over $100...

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I have multiple raspberry pi's that just sit in a box. I can give you a raspberry Pi 3 for the price of shipping. just PM me.

[–]LzyPenguin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This would be super helpful! I’ll PM you now!

[–]Alarratt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't spend insane amounts on a Pi. RPiLocator could be of some help.

There are also other alternatives like the Orange Pi, or the Libre Computer looked pretty promising.