Ron,

For a desktop machine, I would consider the following minimums:

Ram: Minimum 16GB

Modern web browsers are memory hogs. Once you throw in the window manager and a couple more applications, there's never been a situation where I've thought, "Damn, this machine has too much memory" My current machine has 16gb of ram, and frankly, I wish it had 32GB or 64GB.

Disk: Minimum 512GB

Disk Type: If you can afford the price, buy an NVME, if not an SSD.

NVME is essentially a solid state disk plugged directly into the PCI bus skipping the SATA buss) so the I/O performance is kick ass. Yet again... nobody ever complains their program loads too fast. The price has come way down on these.

Personally, other features that I'd want would be support for dual monitors.

Tim.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 7:48 AM THE HAMMER via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I want to consider getting a new desktop computer. Can anyone advise me as to a specific model and place to purchase from? It's been a long time since I've bought new.

I would be using it mostly for emails, a few general apts (like music streams and libre office), and a bit of amateur coding. I am not a gamer.

If it is a windows machine, I'd like to load on a linux based os

Suggestions?

Ron

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