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Leaving a desktop on all day and night is not automatically ruinous, but it is rarely free. Measure the wall socket, do the unit-rate maths, and decide whether sleep, wake-on-LAN, or a smaller machine makes sense.
A mini-PC, NAS and router can ride out a short outage on a sensible £100 UPS — if you size it properly. Here is the UK checklist for VA, watts, sine wave output and testing without wasting money.
Prebuilt PCs can be a smart buy for a small UK office, but the listing is written to sell rather than to help you compare. Here is the HitPCs checklist for spotting vague CPU names, single-channel RAM, no-name PSUs and warranty wording that sounds better than it is.
Gaming desktops look like good value on paper, but for most small UK offices they are the wrong tool. Here is why business mini-PCs and workstations win on warranty, Windows 11 Pro, noise, energy bills and support — plus practical specs for common workloads.