I'm shopping for my first new desktop in five years and hoping to have it for as long. My desk area is tiny (converted closet) so I'm looking at smaller and quieter systems. (But still mainstream: I've been a bit disappointed with the stability of VIA-based systems so want to stick with Intel or perhaps AMD.)
I'm looking closely at Dell's "Optiplex 760" system. It's available in two smallish form-factors, one "ultra small" that'll fit on a bookshelf and a "small" that won't. But only the latter is available with a core-2 *quad* processor. Anybody have experience or strong feelings about how badly I'll wish I had four cores over the next few years? The system will run Debian natively and Windows 7 in qemu or Virtual Box on top of that. I expect it'll be most heavily loaded when I'm running Eclipse. Our current desktop shows its age when browsing photo galleries, and can't really run Eclipse at all. Thanks, --Eric -- ****************************************************************************** * From the desktop of: Eric House, xwo...@eehouse.org * * Crosswords 4.2 for MS Smartphone and PocketPC is out: xwords.sf.net * ****************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
