Received an email from the President of the Mac User Group asking if I could find a used high-spec Mac Mini for use as a new server for the Club's OpenText FirstClass BBS arrangement. The old G4 XServe that Apple donated to us 10 years ago is no longer up to the job. We have a quote from a supplier for $2100 to upgrade the processor & RAM of a Core i5 model.
I found a retailer in the same side of the city with several 2.8 GHz Core i7 Mac Minis at $1080 each. We'd only need to upgrade the RAM for a bit over $300. Hopefully we can get one of those machines.