PS: I can definitely see the desire to have a printout, rather than have multiple people crowded around a (perhaps small) screen... One tends to get spoiled with their 4k or full HD screens, and forget how unpleasant it is to try to do development on (say) the 12inch chromebooks popular in some schools.
A cheap used PC can be a LOT like a cheap used car. It's only a matter of time before you have to fix something major.
With a PC the worst is when the PSU starts going as it sends spikes through the whole machine often well before it quits. You can find yourself replacing boards on a regular basis. The worst case of that I saw did happen to a guy who thought that ground on the power cord is optional and used a cheater plug.
Yes, I know about this. A cheap new PC usually comes with a minimal PSU which is why I built my own with extra power since 1986.
For me, if your data isn't worth over twice the hardware, you're wasting money.
(The used PCs I'm talking about are the off-lease systems sold by the likes of DellRefurbished or ArrowDirect - brand name PCs that have essentially been "burnt in" for 20 months or so in a low-stress corporate environment, replaced as per corporate policy whether it needed it or not, and then checked and "refurbished" by people who know what they're doing. I think I trust them more than the latest "new" PCs (that haven't quite been proven yet.))
(if your data is worth anything, back it up frequently regardless of how much you've beefed up your PC!)
I have no problems with refurbs. You don't fix total junk.
The Arrow Direct store does have lower prices.
(dell usually has a "coupon" active for an additional 30-50% off something or other. But they don't seem to put Win10 on everything the way Arrow does. (whether that's good or bad is a separate question!))
GoForSmoke:
A cheap used PC can be a LOT like a cheap used car. It's only a matter of time before you have to fix something major.
If it was cheap enough just buy another really cheap one.
Just make sure valuable data is carefully backed-up. But you do that anyway with the most expensive PC, don't you!
...R
I never wasted money buying at the bleeding edge.