| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On 24/04/2023 02.35, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > There are a lot of used Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Tiny computers | > available, starting at $100.
| These are neat, but I was thinking of a portable device like the later DECTalk | boxes. Still, that's a heck of a deal. I may replace my 2013 Samsung laptop | with one for the "Do I have to?" Windows moments. 1. There are many choices of these off-lease ThinkCentre computers. In that RFD thread I pointed out a $~150 choice that I thought might be worth the extra fifty dollars. 2. These little computers are easy to stick on a shelf. But when you use them for Windows, you need a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Don't forget that (I know you wouldn't have; it's a figure of speach). But you probably have those laying around that you can temporarily repurpose. But it is a reason to consider a cheap old notebook instead. 3. This is tax time. Exactly when I need Windows. I'm using one of my M93p's for exactly that purpose. For confidential work like that, I prefer a desktop so that I don't accidentally take it out of my house. Besides, a large screen helps for tax-related work. 4. I don't find off-lease notebooks as attractive. Enough things have advanced over the years that they just aren't as useful as cheap newer notebooks. I have bought used notebooks but not that aged. 5. In some ways, the best time to have bought off-lease stuff was when the Intel Core 10th generation was current: the progress between the fourth and tenth generation was so slow that you didn't lose a lot being behind. My impression is that the 11th and 12th were significant steps. The 13th is better still but I don't know how much. Unfortunately business machines tend to ignore AMD. We do have Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Tiny computers which are AMD-based. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
