Tons of good options in the used enterprise market. 3-5 years old, usually some paths for basic upgrades, as well as a flood of part availability from all the other similar systems being off boarded that were broken and not resellable. Laptops can be a bit roughed up, but full sized and sff desktops are usually in great condition.

You have to create your database without any indexes, then you can add them later for a speed boost

Agreed, Aldi’s stuff rarely worse than equivalent products, and some I prefer more than the name brand. Only things I balk at are fake cheese flavored things and canned goods from their German themed store brand.

Apple really doesn’t offer me anything I want to do above and beyond what Android offers that makes the cost of transition worth it. I’ve been on Android for 13 years, I’m very used to it, know all the tricks. I like the level of control Android gives, I’ve loaded custom roms in the past and I side load apps now. I’ve also never had a (modern) Apple product and never had the need to set up any Apple accounts, so it’d be a pain starting completely fresh.

I’ve heard you are supposed to stop by 150