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You can sometimes even get new ones. I picked up 5 Dell Optiplex 3050's brand new in box on ebay last year for £58 (~$75 USD) a pop. Even came with a keyboard and mouse. You get a lot of office clearances on there where its places that have just bought excess then never ended up using them.

The ones I nabbed were the i7 6700T's with 16GB ram and a 128gb ssd. Total bargain and not at all that rare to find on there these days around that price point.

Oh they also all came with a Windows hardware license, not that I wanted it but another bonus.

You can get brand new, current-gen (Alder Lake) mini PCs with those specs for the same price as a PI + storage + case + PSU.

Where?

Here is an example [1]. When you factor out the pricefor PSU, Storage you will find that probably this is comparable or cheaper than PI 5.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-S12-Pro-Generation-Intel/dp/B...

Cheaper still, when the manufacturers Aliexpress store has a sale. I've seen them as low as $105 USD.

Used, so not a fair comparison.