Dell Wyse 5070
Shares rank 16 of 18 mini PCs by recommenders
People recommend it as a cheap, quiet, low-power mini PC that runs home services well and is easy to upgrade, usually bought used.
People recommend it as a cheap, quiet, low-power mini PC that runs home services well and is easy to upgrade, usually bought used.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fanless, low power draw
“It's fanless, still gets firmware updates (via LVFS!), and takes about 5W at the wall plug.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Home Assistant waters my plants” “It's fanless, still gets firmware updates”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Home Assistant waters my plants” Runs home services well
“I run quite a few services with a used Dell Wyse 5070 thin client PC from 2018 with 4GB of ram.”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “Self-hosting is being enshittified” “The whole setup didn't cost me much, and is more than enough for what I need it to do.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “DIY NAS: 2026 Edition”
Other mini PCs people recommend
The four most recommended other mini PCs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Mac mini | 390 | 160 | 71% | 13 | 2 yrs42 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark | 170 | 121 | 58% | 12 | 6 mo16 owners | — |
| AMD Strix Halo | 130 | 83 | 61% | 13 | 11 mo8 owners | — |
| Framework Desktop | 93 | 26 | 78% | 12 | 3 mo9 owners | Approved |
| Dell Wyse 5070This page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Dell Wyse 5070s are great for basic tasks”
“being able to load them with 16 GB of ddr3 ram each for a song meant they were basically an obvious upgrade”
“It's fanless, still gets firmware updates (via LVFS!), and takes about 5W at the wall plug.”
“It's fanless, still gets firmware updates”
“it has USB c dp alt mode and much more”
“I run quite a few services with a used Dell Wyse 5070 thin client PC from 2018 with 4GB of ram.”
“The whole setup didn't cost me much, and is more than enough for what I need it to do.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.