What's the cheapest thing I can build that will let me browse

yes, a pi should be fine. cheap and easy to setup.

or you can find a refurbished desktop for cheap on newegg or something.

>>55776581
I was planning to use the pi with a keyboard a mouse and the monitor I already have.
I cannot think of anything cheaper and I was wondering how much power does the average user than wants to do basic stuff needs.

A Pi would work if that's really all you need it for and you're sure that you won't be doing anything too hardware intensive.

Get a decent SD card for storage or use an external hard drive.

If you want it to look real nice you can even get an inexpensive case for it.

>>55776683
I was planning to use an external drive.

>>55776548
Raspberry pi is a chore for deskop usage

normal browsing needs at least 512mb of ram
1gb is more comfy
2gb is enough

>>55776548
get a shitty used thinkpad or elitebook or something

For personal comfort I would pay the $50 for a t61 thinkpad. More easily portable as well.

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>>55776548
honestly just spend 180$ on a used t420, trying to do web browsing on the rpi is painfully slow.

>>55776548
BananaPi M3

> more cores than your average amd
> less W than an intel

Rpi is cheap iff you already have a lot of the stuff you need already.

If you also need keyboard, screen, sd card, power supply and case, I don't think it is a cheap solution.
Instead, you could get a used laptop for a better price.

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OP here, I do have the peripherals needed. And I already have a t420.

I just wanted to see how cheap can you to get something that works for basic stuff.

>>55778072
>moar cores
it will still be worse than old as fuck AMDs.

>>55777526
I'd like to put something else in his mouth sempai

>>55778160
I use my Pi as a computer sometimes. It can do work stuff and all that, but don't expect to do too much on it. It can run videos at various speeds and it takes a while to open Internet images sometimes. But it should work for you.

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>>55778379
thx!

>>55776548
Just buy a used thinkpad t400 so you can run Windows 7 or 10 and get real work done. They're like 80 USD on ebay.

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Browse craigslist or your local equivalent and ask around if your friends have any extra stuff they want to get rid of. Pic related,

>a HP dc5800 from an university that was getting rid of their old hardware
>a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor and an extra 4GB of DDR2 from a friend working at an IT department
>a GT 640 from another friend's old prebuilt that he got rid of

The only thing I paid money for was the computer itself, which cost me ten euros.

>>55780137
>dat pic
damn...