My educational institution is offloading a bunch of old computers for below market prices. Only one for each buyer. These both have i5-8500T, 8 GB and 512 GB (probably 2.5" SATA SSD, because M.2 is mentioned separately for other units). Given that they have no Thinkstations or Thinkcentres on offer, which one of these two should I go for, or is there any difference?
My other options are to buy nothing and see what I can do with my current computers or pay double the price for something from Lenovo through eBay. Since these are Coffee Lakes without the Refresh, these don't include the Spectre / Meltdown mitigations in hardware as far as I know.
Tl;dr: Out of an identically configured HP EliteDesk 800 G4 mini or Dell Optiplex 7060 micro, is one better than the other?
My other options are to buy nothing and see what I can do with my current computers or pay double the price for something from Lenovo through eBay. Since these are Coffee Lakes without the Refresh, these don't include the Spectre / Meltdown mitigations in hardware as far as I know.
Tl;dr: Out of an identically configured HP EliteDesk 800 G4 mini or Dell Optiplex 7060 micro, is one better than the other?