I went to my local thrift shop and found a Dell Inspiron for $150 - it's got a DVD-RW, 16 GB of RAM, a 3TB drive and an I7-4790 CPU. It'll make a nice upgrade from my old Core 2 Quad box.
I'm surprised at how sparse it is on the inside - my Precision Workstation circa 2011 has fans everywhere and a ton of drive bays, the Inspiron has a case with covered ports and those 2000-era smooth covers over the DVD drives. Not as garish as my old Compaq Presario, by any means.
MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
this i7 computer just needs little fans and stays cool, even when
gaming at max settings. ---
MRO wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
this i7 computer just needs little fans and stays cool, even when gaming at max settings. ---
This new little i7 is plugged into the same UPS that the Core 2 Quad was plugged into. With the old system I had 11 minutes of run time. With the new system, 24 minutes.
... Frightfully nice.
I picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad X131e for $30 this weekend, in mint condition. The keyboard and screen are immaculate.
I opened up the inside and it's got 2 memory sockets and a space for a 2.5" SATA drive. I tossed a 32GB SSD I bought as a test drive and Chrome sees it as storage. Nice.
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