On Wednesday 09 of September 2015 02:07:35 Felix Miata wrote:
Michal Kubecek composed on 2015-09-09 07:04 (UTC+0200):
gumb wrote:
A new or secondhand machine will be at least 150 UK pounds (if we're talking about anything of remotely satisfactory quality on a par with their old but reliable existing machine).
Depends on how you value your time. I checked the prices two days ago: for ~140 EUR (including Czech VAT which is one of the higher ones), you can have a motherboard, a two-core 64-bit CPU (with integrated GPU as a bonus) and 8 GB of memory; you can keep the rest of the system and get something that would, performance-wise, beat any common 32-bit machine by far.
Improved performance is not unusually a non-issue for single taskers doing email, shopping or social media.
In my experience, users of such systems often think so - but only until they can compare the responses of contemporary desktops on their old hardware with a new one. I intentionally write "hardware" as more memory or SSD replacing traditional HD in most cases help much more than faster CPU (for 2005+ (64-bit) CPU's, that is). An old desktop on an old hardware would be fine - but that's (1) a security risk and (2) hardly relevant for our discussion.
I don't know what it's like on the east side of the Atlantic, but here in the west, complete refurb (burned in, tested) 64 bit PCs are widely available off lease for less than the bargain mobo/CPU/RAM packages, and simpler for Joe Average to navigate through.
Not every PC case can take a generic motherboard upgrade, and even when it can, the old PS may well fall short of the new hardware's requirements, mechanically and/or electrically.
Even better, then. All I wanted to say was that those 150 GBP were not the lower bound. I definitely didn't want make an impression that replacing MB/CPU/RAM is the only option or that it suits everyone. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org