Hardware recommendations, please

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ken Burtch wrote:

> 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?

   Is there a laptop with a full-size keyboard (including keypad) and
   a 22"-24" screen I can place ~32" directly in front of me and ~18"
   from the keyboard?

> 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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   Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster         <http://woodbine-gerrard.com>
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   Author:
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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