Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to
> > figure out what to do.
What are your needs, and what's your budget?
Are you comfortable plugging together components to build a
machine, or do you want to pay for the convenience of having
someone else do it?
Thanks Dan for your message.
I'm comfortable with plugging the components together if it's easy :) :).
That is, for some boxes, it is very easy to attach a drive. On these old mac pros, the side slips off, and you basically can just shove in a drive. On the machine that i am replacing, it's a little harder, because you have to attach a cable to the drive and i think maybe a power cable as well, iirc. But on some machines it is very hard because the cable may be tight, or the insides might be all jammed together. So i guess part of what i want is a box that opens and expands easily. I'm just a little leery of adding cards, though, because in my experience they can destabilize a system.
And as to what i'm using it for, well, just the usual---internet, programming, viewing images, listening to audio, etc. Nothing fancy like controlling real-time hardware (i'd want a dedicated box before doing something like that).
dan
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