Mini PC for Displaying Spreadsheet and Reception Powerpoints

[LukeJamieson]

Hello there!

 

For a bit of context, I'm an IT tech at a housing charity in the UK. We have an open space office with 35 employees.

 

I have been tasked to set up a 65" TV in the main office with a Live spreadsheet running on it with important information that is required by all staff members. Im struggling to come up with a budget friendly solution that would work for this.

 

The requirements are

• needs to be under  £300 for the PC
• Need to wirelessly connect to it ( Ideally not through RDP)
• run win 10 or 11 pro

We also need another PC for our public reception TV to run a ongoing video or PowerPoint that can also be remotely managed.

 

In the past, I have set the latter up with a Rasberry PI with a digital signage OS on it however the Pi has died now hence we are tackling both at the same time.

 

I wanted to run 2 vesa mounted PC's that are on 24/7 and RDP into them although from what I understand, this is not a great solution and I wondered if there was a better way of approaching it.

 

Thanks for your time everyone  

[Radium_Angel]

See if any of these fit the bill

 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

You can get 6th through 8th gen i5 HP Prodesk/Elitedesk Mini PCs all day for less than $200 on Ebay, i3s are even less. You can either configure them with parts for a little more or just get a barebones one for the cheapest price available and put your own SSD and Ram into it. 

[seanondemand]

Yeah, my city sells surplus pcs (usually Lenovo thinkstations) for a couple hundred bucks, I used one for a nas for a while. 

[LukeJamieson]

Brilliant, thanks for your replies. I was looking at some 8th gen Lenovo tiny PC's for £120 each after your advice! (Thanks @SpookyCitrus)

 

Thanks for your time