On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:54 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to > > > figure out what to do. > > What are your needs, and what's your budget? > > Are you comfortable plugging together components to build a > machine, or do you want to pay for the convenience of having > someone else do it? > Thanks Dan for your message. I'm comfortable with plugging the components together if it's easy :) :). That is, for some boxes, it is very easy to attach a drive. On these old mac pros, the side slips off, and you basically can just shove in a drive. On the machine that i am replacing, it's a little harder, because you have to attach a cable to the drive and i think maybe a power cable as well, iirc. But on some machines it is very hard because the cable may be tight, or the insides might be all jammed together. So i guess part of what i want is a box that opens and expands easily. I'm just a little leery of adding cards, though, because in my experience they can destabilize a system. And as to what i'm using it for, well, just the usual---internet, programming, viewing images, listening to audio, etc. Nothing fancy like controlling real-time hardware (i'd want a dedicated box before doing something like that). dan > > -dsr- >
