Hardware recommendations, please

[Ken Burtch]

Hardware is so over-powered these days it's not fully.  For a shell script 
junky like yourself, just about any machine would do with 2 GHz, 2 GB. 
Have you considered a low-end Lenovo laptop so you can carry your music 
where you go?

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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

>
>   I am in the market for a new desktop system, but my knowledge of PC
>   hardware is very limited. I have only bought one X86 system in my
>   life (described below) though I had inherited a couple previously.
>
>   Can you make any suggestions about what to get, what to avoid,
>   where to buy, where not to buy, etc.?
>
>   I am considering something like this, with an added 1TB HD:
>   <http://www.sonnam.com/system.asp?prod_ID=SYS-SN-CLE-0005>
>
>   I am not a gamer; the most taxing use I have for the video card is
>   probably playing DVDs and YouTube downloads.
>
>   I do care about sound quality (all my music is on my HD), but I
>   don't care about a lot of features. (I don't even want the ability
>   to mix sound sources; I want only my music to be heard. The
>   computer should otherwise be silent apart from the PC speaker.)
>
>
>
>   Current hardware (bought March 2002, RAM and HDDs upgraded)
>
>   P4 1.6GHz
>   1GB DDR RAM
>   Nvidia Riva TNT2 32MB
>   IDE drives:
>     160 GB
>     250 GB
>     500 GB
>   17" CRT monitor
>
>
>   I have the following running at all times:
>
>   20 desktops (WindowMaker, 2 banks of 10)
>   9 rxvt terminal windows:
>           3 local shell
>           1 alpine
>           1 slrn
>           1 root shell
>           3 ssh to remote
>   emacs - user, 3 windows
>   emacs - root, 1 window
>   2 gentoo file managers
>   oowriter - 2+ windows (until book is finished -- a few more weeks)
>
>
>
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>   Author:
>   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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