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Lenovo ThinkCentre M93 i7 4765T Win10Pro
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
Those corporate boxes go pretty small.
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-M93-i7-4765T-Win10...
To me NUCs have sort of the same problem as their brethren in this space, you end up with too much money into them.
In terms of cheap desktops, I've settled into older Thinkpads for now. Tolerably quiet (although I do consider fanless desktops now and again), cheap, they appear to be the kings of OS compatibility, as fixable as a laptop can be, built-in battery backup for the shitty power we have 'round these parts.
At some point I'll have to modernize, but find it hard to spend much on computers. That's what employers/clients are for.