Thinkpads are a little overpriced and overhyped atm IMO.

Take a look at Thinkcentres and HP Elite Desks on ebay if you're comfortable working through a command line.

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Not if it’s 10 years old πŸ˜‰

I’ll take a look at those if my bid falls through. Thanks for the advice!

That’s right. The X220s and T420s are insanely good buys and can security hardened really well

This was my first hard drive. My Commodore 64. 64k of ram and a cassette tape for storage. 1983. My how far we have come

I'm using refinished Dell Optiplex for my node, 16GB ram, 1 TB hard drive.

*refurbished

My thinkpad got sniped.

Spied a HP Elite 8300. It looks like I can install 2 SSD so I can put the node on one side and general use on the other. Thanks again for the advice

How loud are the fans on these?