And from the glowing reviews it’s clear that

  1. W11 doesn’t actually need a new PC to run and the limitations are completely artificial

  2. For many people, a ten years old PC is fast enough (or even faster than a brand new Intel N100 PC that is officially W11 compatible). They won’t even notice that’s something from 2015, as long it has a shiny new case, enough RAM and SSD

  3. Amazon doesn’t care that the PC comes with pirated software, or that someone is scamming their customers, as long they get their 15% cut from marketplace sales (the cost of a genuine license of W11 pro and office exceeds the price of those ewaste specials)

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    25 days ago

    They dont officially support windows 11 and the avg users are not going to know any better. It’s a grey area scam. They’re not worth $400 at all.

    But 1000% not waste to a tech person. My oldest machines right now we’re decommissioned workstations with 8th gen i5s that I used for seedbox, DNS/pihole, proxmox, etc. they won’t get windows installed and I’ll drive them til they literally die. Backed up with veaam to a second truenas, easily swapped out and back up and running with any failure. I love older tech because it’s cheap and as long as you know what you’re doing, it works well.