| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Yeah, my buys this season were upgrades at the human interface level, a | second 4K monitor and a new keyboard (and a few weeks ago, an ergonomic | vertical mouse). | | Through the year, upgrading RAM and replacing all boot drives from spinning | disks to SSDs have provided noticeable performance boost and are relatively | cheap. Yeah. Well today (still Sunday for me), I kind of went nuts. My son's 3 or 4 year old system was failing in a way that I couldn't diagnose over the phone. So: chuck out the motherboard and 6th gen i5 and replace it, probably with an AMD 3700X. Boy AMD is popular; the current gen is scarce and not discounted. Then late at night I came upon two deals that I could not and did not resist: <https://forums.redflagdeals.com/lenovo-canada-thinkcentre-m75n-iot-nano-desktop-amd-dual-core-256-ssd-238-2424677/> <https://forums.redflagdeals.com/dell-dell-precision-workstation-3440-i3-10100-8gb-253-taxes-2424758/> The first one beats the Chuwi, I think, for driving TV. The second would take more power than I would like for that application. Intel video disappoints me. I do think that the Xe of the Intel Core i 11th generation might well be a winner.