I'd agree with Jason, although I'd like a new system as well.
Currently I am using a Dell PowerEdge 2400 Dual 733 PIII with 1.5G of
memory and 6 18g SCSI hard drives. Really like the system but it is
very old.


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux
user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote:
> Youtube works fine for me on this 9-year-old IBM NetVista with a 1 GHz processor and only 256 MB of RAM.  (I bought this old computer used in 2007 for $50).  Are you sure you really need to replace your 1.1 GHz K7?  Wouldn't an upgrade be more cost effective?  Even if you need to replace your old computer, why not replace it with a newer used computer?  Desktop computers depreciate rapidly, and I'm sure you can buy a lot of desktop computing power for $50 or less.
>
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:55:22 -0500
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote:
>
>> So I'm finally breaking down and going to get myself a new desktop machine,
>> because Youtube is unusable on a 1.1GHz K7, and Gmail is pretty doggy
>> sometimes when editing.
>>
>> Thing is, I don't have a clue what's good hardware on the market these days.
>> I figured I'd start with a case and go from there; but perhaps I'm being
>> backward and should start with a CPU and narrow down my choices that
>> way.
>>
>> I'd really like a nice big case with lots of room to work in; ideally very quiet.
>> I've been using a Yeong Yang YY-022 for the past 10 years or so; it's a
>> scaled-down version of a double-wide server case. Looks like a black
>> cube-ish thing about 13"x13"x16". It's a bit of a pain to route cables tho;
>> so I'd be happy enough to go back to a conventional layout.
>>
>> Anyone have any good experiences with cases they want to relate?
>>
>> Any good advice on which CPU is at the sweet price point these days?
>>
>> In case you didn't know, I'm not physically in the Twin Cities area (I'm in
>> New Hampshire) so telling me to go down to Tran Micro is not useful. :)
>>
>> --
>> Carl Soderstrom
>> Systems Administrator
>> Real-Time Enterprises
>> www.real-time.com
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