processor i3-7100 ram 4 gb other details will have to restart the machine to tell.
storage device there is an internal hard disk (500gb) that has windows installed on it, which I can not install another operating system to for now for reasons that I would have to back up files before and I don't have time right now to do that, and I am not sure about what would be the safest way of copying files (or should I clone the disk instead)
I will send lshw output shortly for interfaces and everything else.
Software goal is (i) be able to test different systems, and planning to use virtualization for this purpose (ii) possibly create virtual machines with programs installed (iii) a sort of a potential goal is to build a web site and host it , but mainly just rather for learning how to do it, since probably I can not afford for now actually investing in necessary equipment and probably it is easier to do that by paying some service rather than doing it all on one's own (iv) be able to run some programming projects in python
I sort of like exploring and testing out new things, and most of it is not planned. But basically I would like to have the system be able to hold (i) security tools/antivirus (ii) server (apache and samba), probably LAMP or nginx (iii) math packages / programs (R,gnuplot, lapack, and possibly others) (iv) programming packages (gcc,python,java,rhino) at the very least (v) virtualization (virtualbox) (vi) calibre (document viewing and creating instruments) (v) latex (vi) programs to record and view videos or audios, if possible running on the same machine. Of these, I may forego idea of running a server if this slows things too much.
If possible also programming tools for machine-learning.