Cheerful Charlie
Contributor
I finally broke down and bought a new computer. This is a Beelink mini-pc. It has a Ryzen 7 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads. Boots from a NVME ssd. It can take up to 64 GB memory. It is small. About 6 inches square. Think of a laptop minus keyboard and screen. I can add up to a 2 TB NVME SSD and a 2 TB SSD. It outputs HDMI. $369 with tax. It can take 2 32 GB SODIMM memory modules, $64 each.
My old system is old, down now with a bad cpu cooler, and some dead onboard stuff, now relying on add in ethernet and USB 3 boards to run. I will later get a new CPU cooler and run it as a backup machine.
Now the pain, setting it all up and getting it humming real perty like. It comes with Ubuntu installed.
Downsides, no CD. So no ripping CDs. And it is UEFI, so I have to get used to doing that.
But I can get rid of the Tablet I am now using. Android is not a happy system. This is my birthday present to myself.
My old system is old, down now with a bad cpu cooler, and some dead onboard stuff, now relying on add in ethernet and USB 3 boards to run. I will later get a new CPU cooler and run it as a backup machine.
Now the pain, setting it all up and getting it humming real perty like. It comes with Ubuntu installed.
Downsides, no CD. So no ripping CDs. And it is UEFI, so I have to get used to doing that.
But I can get rid of the Tablet I am now using. Android is not a happy system. This is my birthday present to myself.