On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:09:46PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Has anyone any comments on either or both of these two for a simple desktop? > Email, word processing, browsing, simple photo-editing, recording etc. > > http://www.ebuyer.com/658955-lenovo-thinkcentre-e50-00-twr-desktop-90bx001huk >
This is, essentially, a laptop less a screen - it's very similar indeed to the cheapest Lenovo laptop at under £200 from Ebuyer - but it has more USB 3 ports. Given that Windows 8.1 and Bing together cost almost nothing to an OEM and are hugely subisdised by Microoft, it's essentially a desktop less real OS :) Having used the cheapest Lenovo laptop with 4G of memory and 500G spinning rust disk - it has the same processor - it is a bit slow to start but will run Debian fine. The desktop has a laptop power supply so may run a little quieter than a PSU with a fan. > http://www.ebuyer.com/658956-lenovo-e50-desktop-pc-90bx0018uk > > I normally like the name "Lenovo", but am suspicious of these. They seem > under powered (very!), and I would have preferred no OS. But I can't really > produce a reason for my suspicion. Perhaps they are too good to be true? > The second is quite extraordinarily cheap for a desktop in this country. (UK) > Not a great fan of Lenovo if you do keep Windows on the disk - they do supply rather a lot of rubbish, extra utilities, AV products and the like. > The other in the running is this: > http://www.ebuyer.com/570073-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1200 > It has no OS, a plus, and I have had good reports of it. Wife's laptop is a Zoostorm bought with no OS - relatively cheap and cheerful - to be honest, given the choice, I'd prefer an Asus for slightly more solid build quality. Each to their own. > > This is not for me, but for a client. It will run Wheezy and TDE. > > Thanks. > > Lisi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507122309.46202.lisi.re...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150713224059.ga2...@galactic.demon.co.uk
