On 17 April 2017 at 12:54, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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?"