Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

[Ramces Tampo-og Red <lists-16494@citadel.tokyo>]

On 2023-03-21 09:55, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 9:34 PM Stefan Monnier 
> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > > Is there any good low-hassle freedom-respecting reasonable price
> > > reasonable performance computer platform for running Debian these
> >
> > Define your notion of "reasonable" for price and for performance.
> >
> >
> >         Stefan "who finds a Core2 Duo to offer reasonable performance"
>
> I'll rock a Core2 Duo: 64 bit 2.6 GHz dual core CPU, 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz 
> RAM,
> Intel integrated graphics. The Core2 Duo is the first processor I
> considered to be good enough to run until death! The Core2 Duo 
> certainly
> does not have anything on my 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics 
> and
> 16GB RAM.

Agree. I'm still running an old X200 with 8GB of RAM (SSD of course) 
that I
built a junk of X200 parts that someone sold to me way back. I think 
they're
still relatively fast and they can still do a lot of what normal people 
would
do with their computer these days.

ramces