Currently using macmini i5 from 2014 and HP i7 from 2016. Wary about purchasing from woke companies and don't want to upgrade for a good long time. Budget of 2000$. Would appreciate the input of battle-hardened keyboard warriors.
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They're a little bit slower than the RAM installed in your system.
Does that answer the question? ;)
Yeah. I need to build a new dinosaur. My old one is a gaming machine but it runs on 8gb ram and hdd that just gets slower
A PC with a modern (last 10 years) CPU, a decent amount of RAM and a middle of the road graphics card is usually plenty of horsepower, the bottleneck has always been the HDD, most still only run at 7500rpm.
A decent SSD setup will literally blow your socks off, it is the biggest speed upgrade you can actually give your machine assuming it has the basics listed above, so make sure it's big enough for your O/S and your games/applications etc.
A separate HDD for backup and storage of large files you don't use very often if you need to make some space on the SSD and you are set.
8GB RAM is enough for general use and if you are running *nix. Windows is so bloated you need 16GB just to give some headroom to the O/S and bloated browser memory hogs.
Excellent, thank you.
8 gig ram Intel i5 quad core And Radeon graphics card. It’s a gaming machine so I figure if I put Linux on it’s own drive I can use dual boot
That works
Now, look up a m.2 drive. It’s night and day compared to a HDD.
Thanks. Is Linux better for protection? I know windows is the easiest to hack and also most susceptible to viruses. Also do they come with vpn already loaded or will I need to add that to the distro?
You’re susceptible in either case - an OS doesn’t really provide good protection out of the box but I will say windows Defender has gotten better and the playing field is a lot more level.
As for VPNs- most OS have some basic tools built in but you will probably need to download a client, depending on what exactly you’re doing. The use cases can vary greatly so it’s hard for me to say!