[GTALUG] desktop thoughts on Black Friday

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:31:49PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Another link gets you this for $169.
> https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/workperksca/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkcentre/m-nano-series/ThinkCentre-M90n-IoT/p/thinkcentre-m90n-iot?clickid=VmSS0J2fmxyLRiPwUx0Mo3b1UkEwPa0ePyCX3g0&irgwc=1&PID=341376&acid=ww%3Aaffiliate%3Abv0as6

They did have a few nice deals.

Ended up ordering a Thinkpad P17 for my wife to replace the T430 (with
an i5).  Was deciding between an i5 with 8G ram and 256G SSD and T1000
graphics vs an i7 with 16G ram and 256G SSD and T2000 graphics.  One for
$1308 and the other for $1889.  In the end we decided the higher spec'ed
machine made more sense long term.  Pretty sure this will be a noticable
upgrade.  On the other hand my W530 is still perfectly usable.  I guess
having nvidia graphics instead of only intel, and having the i7 rather
than i5 makes a difference.

I guess we will finally have a machine with better specs than the 8 year
old mythtv server in the basement unless you count disk space.  No laptop
is going to win at that.

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Len Sorensen