Need a mini pc for my parents

[Letgomyleghoe.]

So my parents really don't like how their desktop takes a lot of room. The wanted to get an all in one monitor/pc but I don't think this is really a great idea as they already have a perfectly good monitor. My idea is just to strap a mini pc at the back of the monitor but I really don't know much about the mini pc market. The mini pc I want should hopefully have these features for about $500-600 

1. At least 4 cores 

2. A 500 gig sata ssd

3. 4 usb 2.0 ports

5. An hdmi output

6. Should be almost silent

Edit: 7. run windows or be able to run windows through something like bootcamp

Thanks in advance!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Why not get a laptop, and connected a external monitor if needed?

 

What os? You could go mac mini? Or go with a used dell optiplex micro, or hp tiny, or lenovo mini

[Letgomyleghoe.]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

laptop

To big the monitor already barely fits in its area

 

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

os

Windows

 

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

dell optiplex micro, or hp tiny, or lenovo mini

This i'll look into

[WhitetailAni]

Older Mac Mini maybe?

Here is a 2012 Mac Mini.
it hits all the requirements

[Coolmaster]

A nuc, they run intel mobile processors and are tiny, and can be pretty cheap, and you can choose the SSD and RAM, and most of them have a thunderbolt port so you can have plenty of IO.

 

If you need something more powerful but larger, I'd get a Asrock A300, you can put a ryzen apu in it but it is louder since the fan has to be very low profile.

[Letgomyleghoe.]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Older Mac Mini maybe?

Here is a 2012 Mac Mini.
it hits all the requirements

Forgot to say it must run windows.

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, Letgomyleghoe. said:

Forgot to say it must run windows.

Boot Camp

They can have the best of both worlds

[Letgomyleghoe.]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Boot Camp

Oh yeah I forgot about that 

[Letgomyleghoe.]

9 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

A nuc, they run intel mobile processors and are tiny, and can be pretty cheap, and you can choose the SSD and RAM, and most of them have a thunderbolt port so you can have plenty of IO.

 

If you need something more powerful but larger, I'd get a Asrock A300, you can put a ryzen apu in it but it is louder since the fan has to be very low profile.

Thanks for the suggestions

[Imglidinhere]

1 hour ago, Letgomyleghoe. said:

Thanks for the suggestions

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=Intel+NUC&Order=4

 

Tons of awesome options.