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Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed
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Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed www.novatech.co.uk Solid state drive is good. Use a 4K TV as monitor. Cheers -- Clive |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
"Broadback" wrote in message ... As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed windows XP |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
Depends what you want to do with it really. Most of them are full of
crudware, so you usually end up paying more from a small maker locally to get just exactly what software you need instead of a drive full of crapware. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Broadback" wrote in message ... As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed |
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I have several of those here.
Maybe a Mac? If you buy the correct one you can run windows as well. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message ... "Broadback" wrote in message ... As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed windows XP |
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On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed RGB lighting ... -- Adrian C |
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My current desktop PC came from P C Specialist:
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ They built to my exact specification and the machine has proved entirely reliable and satisfactory. I'd recommend them. |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:42:54 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
I have several of those here. Maybe a Mac? If you buy the correct one you can run windows as well. The correct one, well they can all run windows, but you may have to buy W10 or whatever. I've heard (no pun intended) that the Macs voice over is quite good. But as I've never had to use it I can't really comment. We've bought 96 PCs for the lab all-in-one that seem quite good value, similar to an iMac but less than half the price and as you won't be seeing the display so you won't need retina or even 4K. The only accurate thing I know about ours is that the weight is 12KG https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop...iplex-7460-aio |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed Unanswerable without knowing what you want it for. Do you have one at the moment? How much of it is re-useable (e.g. keyboard, monitor?). Can it be upgraded? As a general suggestion I'd say get an SSD at least for the system drive. Best "bang for the buck" without a doubt will come from a reconditioned business machine (box only). I've had several Dells, currently on a Precision 490 which is getting on a bit now. Spend what you save over a "new" one on one (or more) decent monitors and/or big SSDs. |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 21/02/2019 16:13, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:42:54 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote: I have several of those here. Maybe a Mac? If you buy the correct one you can run windows as well. The correct one, well they can all run windows, but you may have to buy W10 or whatever. I've heard (no pun intended) that the Macs voice over is quite good. But as I've never had to use it I can't really comment. We've bought 96 PCs for the lab all-in-one that seem quite good value, similar to an iMac but less than half the price and as you won't be seeing the display so you won't need retina or even 4K. The only accurate thing I know about ours is that the weight is 12KG https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop...iplex-7460-aio Look to be about the same price as an iMac to me. OptiPlex 7460 All-in-One £939 21.5" iMac 2.3GHz Processor 1TB Storage £1049 -- Cheers, Rob |
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On Thursday, 21 February 2019 16:52:30 UTC, RJH wrote:
On 21/02/2019 16:13, whisky-dave wrote: On Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:42:54 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote: I have several of those here. Maybe a Mac? If you buy the correct one you can run windows as well. The correct one, well they can all run windows, but you may have to buy W10 or whatever. I've heard (no pun intended) that the Macs voice over is quite good. But as I've never had to use it I can't really comment. We've bought 96 PCs for the lab all-in-one that seem quite good value, similar to an iMac but less than half the price and as you won't be seeing the display so you won't need retina or even 4K. The only accurate thing I know about ours is that the weight is 12KG https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop...iplex-7460-aio Look to be about the same price as an iMac to me. OptiPlex 7460 All-in-One £939 21.5" iMac 2.3GHz Processor 1TB Storage £1049 yes I forgot we got them for about £750 each and with SSDs and 16GB of memory with an i7 . Of course the Macs are only 21.5" compared to 24" . I'm not sure how much bloatware they have as they'll just be reformated and the OS's added from scatch via a server. -- Cheers, Rob |
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On 21/02/2019 15:05, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
"Broadback" wrote in message ... As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed windows XP Don't be silly. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote:
On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. But capable ones can be had second hand refurbished for under £300. If you want to do anything exotic like 4k video editing then you need to say so. If it is just for word processing than almost anything will do. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:50:03 UTC, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed If it's just for general use, an ex-corporate Dell or HP from Microdream, Tier1online or Morgan. As they use an Authorised Refurbisher install of Win10 they don't have much bloatware. SSD for the O/S drive and 8 GB RAM. Owain |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
Yes I used Quiet PC for the same reasons.
It is more expensive as it needed to be quiet, but generally its been fine. And use an ssd main drive. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Bert Coules" wrote in message o.uk... My current desktop PC came from P C Specialist: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/ They built to my exact specification and the machine has proved entirely reliable and satisfactory. I'd recommend them. |
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Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:57:32 +0000, Martin Brown wrote:
On 21/02/2019 21:42, wrote: On Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:50:03 UTC, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed If it's just for general use, an ex-corporate Dell or HP from Microdream, Tier1online or Morgan. As they use an Authorised Refurbisher install of Win10 they don't have much bloatware. +1 Although there are some cheap and nasty ones there too. SSD for the O/S drive and 8 GB RAM. For a power user perhaps. Win10 now boots fast enough that only the most impatient casual user will be inconvenienced and it will run OK in 4GB. Obviously dedicated gamers would never be satisfied with Intel Graphics but if you only want 2D graphics and limited 3D support a PC with no graphics card then using the CPU built in capability uses a heck of a lot less power than one with a dedicated gamers graphics card. I agree. Not that I run Windows - it's FreeBSD here. I ran quite happily with a 4 core CPU and 4GB (in 32 bit mode, so really 3.4GB). I now have several TB of disk (in RAID 1). I recently moved to 64 bit (finally!) and use 16GB. Most of the time I use about 5GB of that, and the rest is on a swap-backed RAM disk which is used for everyday large temporary files. The system rarely swaps. I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote:
I ran quite happily with a 4 core CPU and 4GB (in 32 bit mode, so really 3.4GB). I now have several TB of disk (in RAID 1). I recently moved to 64 bit (finally!) and use 16GB. Most of the time I use about 5GB of that, and the rest is on a swap-backed RAM disk which is used for everyday large temporary files. The system rarely swaps. I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. My server is an early 64 bit ex XP machine of mid noughties vintage. My desktop is a modern board with 8GB RAM and an SSD. The ONLY two things that run faster on te desktop, once SSD/spinning rust differences are accounted for, are real time games and video processing. If you dont do either an XP era machine should work fine - at least on Linux. No dounbt Windows has hooks to make it run like a dog on older hardware. -- Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote: I ran quite happily with a 4 core CPU and 4GB (in 32 bit mode, so really 3.4GB). I now have several TB of disk (in RAID 1). I recently moved to 64 bit (finally!) and use 16GB. Most of the time I use about 5GB of that, and the rest is on a swap-backed RAM disk which is used for everyday large temporary files. The system rarely swaps. I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. My server is an early 64 bit ex XP machine of mid noughties vintage. My desktop is a modern board with 8GB RAM and an SSD. The ONLY two things that run faster on te desktop, once SSD/spinning rust differences are accounted for, are real time games and video processing. If you dont do either an XP era machine should work fine - at least on Linux. No dounbt Windows has hooks to make it run like a dog on older hardware. Win10 runs fine on older hardware. |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote:
snip I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:45:48 +0000, Robin wrote:
On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote: snip I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts Since all our desktops have at least 2 HDDs (and some have four) and they are terabytes, not really an issue! -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
More Heavy Trolling by Senile Nym-Shifting Rot Speed!
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:09:31 +1100, 2987fr, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rot Speed, wrote: The ONLY two things that run faster on te desktop, once SSD/spinning rust differences are accounted for, are real time games and video processing. If you dont do either an XP era machine should work fine - at least on Linux. No dounbt Windows has hooks to make it run like a dog on older hardware. Win10 runs fine on older hardware. That's not the experience of many people. So, on HOW many older machines did you test it yet, senile Mr Know-it-all? BG -- "Anonymous" to trolling senile Rot Speed: "You can **** off as you know less than pig **** you sad little ignorant ****." MID: |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:17:36 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:57:32 +0000, Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:42, wrote: On Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:50:03 UTC, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed If it's just for general use, an ex-corporate Dell or HP from Microdream, Tier1online or Morgan. As they use an Authorised Refurbisher install of Win10 they don't have much bloatware. +1 Although there are some cheap and nasty ones there too. SSD for the O/S drive and 8 GB RAM. For a power user perhaps. Win10 now boots fast enough that only the most impatient casual user will be inconvenienced and it will run OK in 4GB. Obviously dedicated gamers would never be satisfied with Intel Graphics but if you only want 2D graphics and limited 3D support a PC with no graphics card then using the CPU built in capability uses a heck of a lot less power than one with a dedicated gamers graphics card. I agree. Not that I run Windows - it's FreeBSD here. I ran quite happily with a 4 core CPU and 4GB (in 32 bit mode, so really 3.4GB). I now have several TB of disk (in RAID 1). I recently moved to 64 bit (finally!) and use 16GB. Most of the time I use about 5GB of that, and the rest is on a swap-backed RAM disk which is used for everyday large temporary files. The system rarely swaps. I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. I had an HDD SATA drive go south on my main machine, & decided to install an SDD in place of it. After copying Debian "Stretch" Linux on to it, I rebooted & from the get-go it now boots in the KDE desktop in 9 seconds flat. I am seriously thinking of changing the HDDs on my other machines. CPU:AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz, RAM:16GB Kingston HyperX Fury. |
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:08:57 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. Or here. I have three desktops. |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On Friday, 22 February 2019 16:34:12 UTC, Martyn Barclay wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:08:57 +0000, Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. Or here. I have three desktops. My new lab has 96 desktops each with a 2nd monitor. These desktops being all-in-one don;lt need a box on the floor. Where do others put their desktops ? |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
On 22/02/2019 10:45, Robin wrote:
On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote: snip I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts It's the fan that is noisy on mine. I know you can go fanless (or water cooled). |
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On 22/02/2019 16:30, Martyn Barclay wrote:
it now boots in the KDE desktop in 9 seconds flat. very similar here for linux Mint The joke ius that once that has booted, windows XP in a 32 bit virtual machine is about 7s second! Or faster if resiuming from a live image -- Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age. Richard Lindzen |
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On 22/02/2019 16:34, Martyn Barclay wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:08:57 +0000, Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. Or here. I have three desktops. I am down to the one. Plus a laptop to watch videos and TV in bed (bliss) . Plus a raspberry Pi to handle all my hifi needs. Plus a smart phone to control the Pi And a couple of smart TVs as well And of course my weary old server. -- "Corbyn talks about equality, justice, opportunity, health care, peace, community, compassion, investment, security, housing...." "What kind of person is not interested in those things?" "Jeremy Corbyn?" |
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On 22/02/2019 17:48, newshound wrote:
On 22/02/2019 10:45, Robin wrote: On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote: snip I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts It's the fan that is noisy on mine. I know you can go fanless (or water cooled). try finding a fanless power supply -- "Corbyn talks about equality, justice, opportunity, health care, peace, community, compassion, investment, security, housing...." "What kind of person is not interested in those things?" "Jeremy Corbyn?" |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
try finding a fanless power supply https://www.scan.co.uk/products/400w-seasonic-platinum-400-fanless-full-modular-80plus-platinum-single-rail-33a-fanless-atx-psu A "little" more expensive ... |
Time for a new desk top PC, recommendations please
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Friday, 22 February 2019 16:34:12 UTC, Martyn Barclay wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:08:57 +0000, Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. Or here. I have three desktops. My new lab has 96 desktops each with a 2nd monitor. These desktops being all-in-one don;lt need a box on the floor. Where do others put their desktops ? Mine sits on a table well back for the pair of tables the monitors are on, still with no covers, as it was just after I assembled it. The two previous desktops that are no long used are sitting on the floor in tower cases next the armchair I compute from with my feet up on a big ottoman type thing. I should get off my arse and move the old desktops that are no longer used and put the current desktop there, but there is such a mega mess of cables under the tables the monitors are mounted on that I can't be arsed to do that. |
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On Friday, 22 February 2019 16:50:57 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
Where do others put their desktops ? Mine's on the desk with the monitor on top. Just like in the 1980s :-) Owain |
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On 22/02/2019 16:50, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 22 February 2019 16:34:12 UTC, Martyn Barclay wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:08:57 +0000, Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:44:22 +0000, Tim Streater wrote: In article , Martin Brown wrote: On 21/02/2019 21:12, John Rumm wrote: On 21/02/2019 14:49, Broadback wrote: As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed How old is the system being replaced and what CPU/ram/disk does it have? What spec do you currently have? What are you going to use it for? What areas of performance in particular are you hoping to improve? What is the budget? These days desktops are somewhat out of favour. Not here they're not. Or here. We have six in use at home. Or here. I have three desktops. My new lab has 96 desktops each with a 2nd monitor. These desktops being all-in-one don;lt need a box on the floor. Where do others put their desktops ? I have a rack of that wiggle wire shelving[1] sat in the corner of the office. Bottom shelf takes a couple of 1kVA UPSs, and a pair of midi tower base units. Next one up, supplementary network switch, external drives, KVM switch etc. Next flatbed scanner, spare media etc. Next up some more printers and scanners, and then top shelf, paper and a pile of "stuff". The the "healing" bench to my right for machines I am fixing etc, and then I have a SFF box and screen setup as a copy station in the cubby space of my built in office furnitu http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...iltInPlace.jpg [1] That kind of stuff: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Duty-...fsclp_pl_dp_10 -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
Lonely Psychotic Senile Ozzie Troll Alert! LOL
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 05:38:45 +1100, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: Where do others put their desktops ? Mine sits on a table well back for the pair of tables the monitors FLUSH the latest load of senile **** Nobody asked YOU, poor senile idiot! LOL -- "Anonymous" to trolling senile Rot Speed: "You can **** off as you know less than pig **** you sad little ignorant ****." MID: |
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On Friday, 22 February 2019 17:48:57 UTC, newshound wrote:
On 22/02/2019 10:45, Robin wrote: On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote: snip I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we had an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but otherwise I see no need. if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts It's the fan that is noisy on mine. I know you can go fanless (or water cooled). I can hardly hear my mac mini or my iMac fans they both have fans that spin slowly as the design is better as it just doesn't need brute force using cheap fans to cool it. |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... I can hardly hear my mac mini or my iMac fans they both have fans that spin slowly as the design is better as it just doesn't need brute force using cheap fans to cool it. Presumably the reverse must be true. If they scaled up these better designed iMac fans (although its surprising Dyson didn't get there first) then presumably they could make much more efficient wind turbines. With a gentle breeze generating Gigawatts of power. So that everybody would be happy. michael adams .... |
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On Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:50:03 UTC, Broadback wrote:
As the subject. any ideas will be welcomed Buy an iMac . Initially expensive but today is the 9th Birthday of mine. not a perfect record but whenever it has gone wrong the local Apple shop has repaired it F.O.C. several times in the last 9 years Previously running several PC / M/S machines They would fail catastrophically and cost £££ each time to repair or replace. An iMac starts each day in an instant and loads the apps instantly It's very different but you just have to look at the packaging to see that whatever you buy is good quality. |
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