[NBLUG/talk] new computer (alas!)

[Zack Zatkin-Gold]

In my experience, if you underdog your price range, you're going to have
inconveniences.  I saved up and bought a $2,200 machine with good tech
specs and I haven't had any issues.

On Monday, October 19, 2015, Steve S. <northbaygeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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