I'm interested in buying a new desktop soon, and I'm leaning towards this
guy. Basically, I'm so out of the loop with hardware that I'm just going to
ask explicitly which upgrades make the most sense to get, I know the CEO is a
regular here and is extremely reliable. I think it would be worth it to
spend more money if it got me a couple more years out of it, but I'm not sure
how much of a difference extra RAM could provide, or if getting a graphics
card would *ever* make a difference. The only things out of the ordinary
(browsing the web, reading pdfs/djvus) that I'll be doing regularly will be a
lot of typing things up in LaTeX, and a very high chance that I'll end up
using mathematics software like sage or octave and doing some programming
sometime in the future. No gaming or graphic design. I'll be running XFCE
as my desktop environment on Trisquel or maybe Parabola.
To be clear, I'm asking about the choice of processor (G3220, i3-4130,
i5-4430. or i7-4770K), memory (4, 8, 16, or 32GB), and graphics card (GeForce
8400GS or none at all). I'm already pretty sure I want an SSD.
Thanks for putting up with the stupid question.
