On 17 April 2017 at 12:54, Evan Leibovitch via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > I will probably be shopping for a new barebone PC system in the neatr > future. I'm looking for recommendations for both a barebones model and the > best CPU for it. > > Intended OS is Linux Mint, Main uses are for browsing (Chromium), Samba > client and video conversion using Handbrake. Most files will be on a server, > in fact the new system could get by with just a minimal-sized SSD. > > Also appreciated is a link to anywhere that would tell me, at any given > moment, the current state/generation of Intel processors to help the > shopping process.
I do this seldom enough that it has now been a couple of years since I last did it. I bought a Zotac ID-88U, which is one of the quite-little Zotac boxes that's square+thin unit with a quad-core i3 processor. http://linuxdatabases.info/info/steele.html I would presume that there's something new now using the processors being built in 2017; the general rule is that i3 is cheap, i5 is pretty nice, i7 is likely hyperfast but also hyper expensive. There's a new generation of AMDs that seemed to be worth looking at, too. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
