• Bizarroland@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If anyone is interested, I have a lot of HP elite desk g2s with core i5 6500t processors, 8gb ram and 256gb ssds.

    Work was throwing them away and so I turned my trunk into the trash can with the it directors permission.

    I’ll be glad to let them go for $75 a piece.

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    Good article. I’ve been happy with my Lenovo M93p’s for some time now. They seem to be very comfortable running Ubuntu.

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    The design of this website resembles times and mentality contemporary to Netscape Navigator and Altavista.

    …but the suggestions are good. Absolutely worth reading.

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    Detailed article.

    I’ll just add, I recently bought an Optiplex with a 7500t. It was just over $100, but the Gen 7 Intel means it has quicksync which is great for a media server that needs to transcode.

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    Aw I was hoping this really was about mini computers, not tiny PCs. I’ve always wanted a PDP-11…

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      I was surprised they’re available on ebay, but are pricey. So that’s because of nostalgia, right? Are they good for doing any real-world tasks still?

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        Purely nostalgia. Even by the 1980s the PDP-11 was overshadowed by the average computer people had on their desk.

        I mentioned it largely because it’s a classic most here would recognize if only from when they’ve read about Unix (the PDP-11 was where the Unix platform became popular), but there’s a bunch of minicomputers that are absolutely fascinating: IBM’s System/38 used a capability architecture, for example. It’s so unlike anything that came before or since (even its successors are more conventional) I’d love to take a look at one.

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      Someone else from my era.

      I seem to remember that they put out a PDP-11 on a chip at one point. Personally, I always wanted my own microVax.

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    Funny timing.

    Just yesterday, I bought a Lenovo micro PC off eBay for $30 to repurpose as a Chromebox for my kids to use for schoolwork.

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    Wasn’t sure what they were gonna list, but good to see they listed what I’m thinking of getting: a Raspberry Pi.

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    I researched a bit ago and had no luck, but maybe this is the place to ask. Is there any business mini PC that has a powerful enough PSU to add a graphics card? Specifically an RX 580.

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    I started getting mini PCs when raspberry pi prices were peaking. My favorite mini PC I have was a bit expensive at around $200 CAD at the time. Its an hp elitedesk 705 g4 with a Ryzen 5 pro 2400g. Runs just about any server I need and does great for audio recording in Windows.

    I also snagged a lenovo mini thinkcentre for about $100 CAD. It’s a bit older with a 4th gen i5 ( I think) and 8gb of ddr3. It sits in the data closet for contract work that I do and has all my work stuff, office 365, Visio, affinity designer, cloud connections.

    I use a remote connection with my main PC ( running pop!_os Linux) to connect to either of the two instead of buying extra monitors or any peripherals. At the very least, It’s been a fun experiment.