For a basic bitch beginner home lab, finding something like an i5-i7 laptop/optiplex on craigslist/fb market is more than good enough, right? My initial uses are basically thinking to be a plex server, NAS, and maybe a VM to run a pihole or something.
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As a starting point and as long as you understand that it’s a playground that you can make more serious down the line, literally anything will do. Dabble here and there with the software, but I agree with the fact that having room for expansion (i.e. expansion cards) is a nice bonus. As a rule of thumb I’d say that at least four cores (hyperthreading would be good to have but not mandatory) and 16 GB of RAM is a decent starting point that will allow you to run a good bunch of containers and VMs in Proxmox.
For a starting homelab, I would look into Optiplex. Would be more powerful than a laptop (most likely). As mentioned, i5 or it or higher.