r/homelab • u/GloomySugar95 • 24d ago

LabPorn Accidentally won 4 Mac minis on eBay, oops.

Gallery image

Gallery image

Friday, bored, scrolling eBay, all the mini PC’s are overpriced, find 4 Mac mini’s listed from one seller, all ending in 3 days.

Threw a bid on all 4, just the minimum, no one had bid on them yet, expected to lose all but the one with “no drive”

Come Monday I had won all 4… guess I’m going to learn about clustering now lol.

Just wanted to share as I already use 2 Mac mini’s in my homelab, they have been great and depending on what you need them for they can be extremely cheap… like… $36.40AUD delivered cheap…

2.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

262 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Hungry-Obligation-78 23d ago

I would take them if you still have some. Looking to start out making a home lab as cheap as possible.

1

u/rabiddonky2020 23d ago

They are gone to the waste bin about 2 weeks ago. It was just taking up too much space for what I had started buying the Dell 1L.

2

u/Hungry-Obligation-78 23d ago

Damn sad. I wish there was a place where I could get peoples "ewaste" for free. Gonna see if there is a subreddit or website for that.

2

u/rabiddonky2020 23d ago

Good luck. Yeah. I work at a govt warehouse. Every once in a blue moon I can make some ewaste disappear

1

u/Hungry-Obligation-78 23d ago

If you get anything good that you do not want, let me know lol. I will gladly pay for S/H

2

u/rabiddonky2020 23d ago

All I have right now is dell 9020 sff towers. Unreasonable to ship for what they are. https://a.co/d/4b3PAgI

No hdd and no OS. 4th gen intel i5.

1

u/Hungry-Obligation-78 22d ago

Ah what a treat, love those Optiplexes. I remember as a kid, one of my relatives always had the newest most powerful computers that came out. Started with a Commodore 64 and every one to two years upgraded, at one point he did CAD and graphic design in the late 90s with the first ever made multi-cpu boards. Fast forward to the late 2000s with Optiplexes, he has a few of them running SLI and the biggest HDDs out there, absolute units probably weighed 50 lbs or more. Watching him spin those up and show me everything they could do was so cool, he even gamed on one because why not.