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On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:38:29 +0200, Jeroen BellemanIt is sometimes worth paying a premium to have a machine that is fast enough for your immediate project needs (even if cheaper ones are more easily available). You pay quite a high premium for that last bit of performance when it is still very new.
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 4/3/24 16:57, John Larkin wrote:On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 05:21:26 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>>
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What somone learned when he replaced a cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/what-i-learned-when-i-replaced-my-cheap-pi-5-pc-with-a-no-name-amazon-mini-desktop/
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All that said, I post this from a Pi4 8GB, it is sometimes really slow,
but I like and use the GPIO port.
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Considering how important a computer is to our professional and
personal lives, why do people go to great effort to save a few
dollars?
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If a cheap PC fails, it will take days of your time, or more likely
weeks, to recover.
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If an expensive one fails, it takes just a much.
Some of the best designed PCs are from the gaming community suppliers. If you remove the graphics card entirely the main CPU graphics system is more than good enough for all 2D design and some 3D rendering work.>Presumably it fails less often. Cheap electrolytics, cheap fans,
Jeroen Belleman
under-cooled parts will fail.
I just bought four new identical tower PCs, for work, home, cabin, andYour choice but owning several machines of the same vintage leaves you exposed to any glitches in the new machines or their OS's. MS has been known to brick portables on Win10/11 from time to time - not fun at all.
a spare. Once my main box was set up, we cloned the SS drives to the
other three. So if my work PC dies, I have three others available.
They have identical monitors too, so my desktop won't go crazy if theThat is a bit OCD.
video resolution changes. I hate when that happens.
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