Hardware recommendations, please

[William Park]

Instead of building one, try Lenovo desktop.  You can add harddisk and
memory as needed.  For peripherals, I'd recommend

    - Razer Arctosa or Lycosa Mirror Edition keyboard -- I got the
      former at work and latter at home.  Better and cheaper than Happy
      Hacker keyboard.

    - Samsung Spinpoint F1 harddisk 1TB/32MB -- it has similiar specs as
      Seagate ES2 at Barracuda price.

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:53:34AM -0400, 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?

> 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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