Phill Coxon wrote, On 07/04/13 11:29:
It's time for me to buy / build a new Linux desktop as my current one is
getting pretty outdated.
I haven't been paying much attention to hardware for the last couple of
years. I'm also not up to speed on the secure boot issue.
...
Why does everyone focus on the hardware rather than the need?
What do you want the machine to do? Be a lightweight webrowser and
email machine? Dev work? Do you want to run any virtual machines?
Regardless of that, the other advice offered is all good...
i3 - dual core with HT looks like 4 - no Turbo Boost
i5 - quad core without HT. Offers turbo boost
i7 - quad core with HT, looks like 8. Offers turbo boost.
i3 is good for price, i5 is probably what you want, i7 is an expensive
thing for gamers.
I don't care for AMD at any time, so you'll have to make your own
judgement on that.
Ram - get a lot of it no matter what you do, and make sure you install a
64 bit OS.
In a couple years you will probably add more ram to the point of maxxing
it out.
Drives - get a SATA 2 solid state drive for OS/home, and use a spinning
drive for less important stuff.
60 GB Intel 330 drive is ~$110-120 now so not silly money, and
well-worth it.
I have 2x1TB for data and junk, and my root is only 1/3 used. I'm
considering moving some VMs to it as well.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 56G 16G 38G 31% /
However I still sync that to a root partition on the old first hard
drive just in case of surprise SSD death.
--
C Falconer
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