Re: computer recomendations

2023-05-01 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
i absolutely +1 refurbished machines, amazon has a great selection of them as well. On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 10:48 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Look at this : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gd1e > > It is a monster!! 16 Cores, 24 Thread

Re: computer recomendations

2023-04-26 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Look at this : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gd1e It is a monster!! 16 Cores, 24 Threads. I'd double the RAM and make it into a virtualization box. Look at the Bench Mark : https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-13700&id=4992 Yikes!! On 2023-04-18 08:44

Re: computer recomendations

2023-04-26 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Might want to look at the clearance at Dell : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/category/top-deals Look at this : https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/gb7t I think it is a smoking deal!! Keith On 2023-04-18 08:44, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: I got a buddy who needs a new computer

Re: computer recomendations

2023-04-18 Thread James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
just my 2 cents. 8 gig ram. 64 gig disk. something with few moving parts and a cpu that doesn't run hot. I run a pinebook w/ 4 gigs of ram and an arm chip, basically a tablet in laptop form. it's fine for interwebs (because arm, firefox chugs, but vivaldi is fiine. chrome is still 32 bit)

Re: computer recomendations

2023-04-18 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
I would say Framework has a chromebook edition as probably the "best", but the framework laptop can also be anything else like windoze/linux, or probably even a hackintosh if you really wanted. I'm not sure other chromebooks are converti

computer recomendations

2023-04-18 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I got a buddy who needs a new computer. He is retired so only needs something for the internet. I am suggesting a chromebook but don't know what specs he should look for. What do you guys think? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-d