Chris,
How many 3 1/2" drive bays do these have?
A lot of the HP PCs were very well made. I've worked on some that have
been running industrial software for 10+ years non stop running Windows
XP and they are just now dying. One plant I was at bought a bunch of
refurbs just to use as spares running the same Windows XP based
software! Updating the software is very expensive compared to the
hardware, so they just bought a large amount of hardware to swap out
over the next 10 years or so. By the time all of the hardware dies,
most of them will be retired!
I suspect this is fairly common in mature manufacturing plants.
On 3/30/2021 1:31 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:51 AM Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Looking for a small form factor PC to use. Been a while since I've put
together a new system.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085RZDVL5
But for $50 more Newegg will sell you a much more powerful complete
computer.
www.newegg.com/hp-elite-8200-...
<https://www.newegg.com/hp-elite-8200-business-desktops-workstations/p/1VK-001E-0AC40?Item=9SIAKDCE695754&quicklink=true>
I buy these and keep the Windows installation but move it into a virtual
machine that runs under Linux. So if I ever do need Windows I can run it
inside a VM. These machines are powerful enough to do that well enough.
The price is low enough that it's not worth buying parts.
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