[NBLUG/talk] new computer (alas!)

[Steve S.]

It's "alas" because I've found for some years now that mostly I just want
my computer to WORK, appliance-like.  My fsck'ing can-opener never throws
bad blocks...  :P

Though I  _used_to_  enjoy getting a new computer, setting it up, etc, I
mostly experience it these days as a massive inconvenience.

Anyhow... rant over (at least for now).  My question (likely the first of
several) is if there's a general consensus as to the price/performance
"sweet spot" for CPU's?  Probably my most compute-intensive chore is
running Photoshop on 24MP raw images (though I love me some complex 4X
games in the Civ/AoE/MoO model, and late-stage/large-map sessions DO take a
while to calculate.).  I was rather startled by how cheap i7 systems have
become!  But then again, I see that other considerations (Haswll,
Broadwell, Skylake, yadda yadda yadda) seem to be where much of the
differentiation is happening...  so there's quite a HUGE  range of price
and performance under the "i7" umbrella.

And then there's AMD...

I'm sure I could figure it out for myself, in time, but...  Well, per the
Rant above, the geeky joy's just not there...  I'm hoping that my
(admittedly-incomplete) assimilation into the nblug collective might give
me some quicker insights...

Any advice/etc gratefully received!


-  Steve



-- 
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of
childishness and the desire to be very grown up."      -CS Lewis
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