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What I mean is one bought for not cruising the Net.
With all the stuff we download from the Net, at times it seems we need just another computer to handle it all.....like now when the consideration of backing up a 4T drive looms. I can't tie up my laptop for as long as that would take.
What I am thinking is a Tower, probably a mini, with at least 3 USBs for keyboard and transfers, then the monitor, HDMI capable. Add to it able to take an external DVD drive. Enough inside for word processing and to do my own programming if I ever get back into that. The graphics have to be okay for video, that's most of what I am sorting, but it doesn't have to be games because I am not doing that, rather left that behind in the years.
A thing or two it has to be is not dependent on streaming because I don't get that here and it is not being bought to work with the Net, to be dependent on the Net. Hence, for the word processing software, I'll probably buy my copies since I can't have it checking with the Net every day (or worse) to see if the copy is correct.
And the other thing? CHEAP!......or, keeping in mind that it is secondary to the laptop, much less expensive.
Not trying to talk you out of this, but any even half way decent computer should still remain completely usable when doing even a large copy job like that.
You just need a computer, there's no need to mention it doesn't need to be online capable. Any decent PC will come with 4 USB.
What I mean is one bought for not cruising the Net.
With all the stuff we download from the Net, at times it seems we need just another computer to handle it all.....like now when the consideration of backing up a 4T drive looms. I can't tie up my laptop for as long as that would take.
What I am thinking is a Tower, probably a mini, with at least 3 USBs for keyboard and transfers, then the monitor, HDMI capable. Add to it able to take an external DVD drive. Enough inside for word processing and to do my own programming if I ever get back into that. The graphics have to be okay for video, that's most of what I am sorting, but it doesn't have to be games because I am not doing that, rather left that behind in the years.
A thing or two it has to be is not dependent on streaming because I don't get that here and it is not being bought to work with the Net, to be dependent on the Net. Hence, for the word processing software, I'll probably buy my copies since I can't have it checking with the Net every day (or worse) to see if the copy is correct.
And the other thing? CHEAP!......or, keeping in mind that it is secondary to the laptop, much less expensive.
So, any suggestions?
Any interest in learning to build your own?
I built mine - the one I am using - about 10 years ago. It probably wasn't cost effective, but it sure has been personally rewarding to know that I can change out everything, upgrade everything, and that I own the copy of Win 7 64 bit that I am running.
Not trying to talk you out of this, but any even half way decent computer should still remain completely usable when doing even a large copy job like that.
You just need a computer, there's no need to mention it doesn't need to be online capable. Any decent PC will come with 4 USB.
It is a bit complex for my laptop. It HAD 3 USB's....but a wine spill 2 years ago took out the starboard one. One port usb is for the keyboard and the mouse, hence leaving only one. So, essentially, most transfers are to the drive on the laptop and then from the laptop to whatever. My daily diary pictures, for example, go to the laptop from the thumbdrive.....and then, with the printer now hooked into the USB, from the laptop to the printer.
I use an external keyboard because it has been my experience that what goes first on the laptop is the keyboard.
My thrifty self says I ought to review my resources to see if I can do it before I spend the cash....but my thinking self says I ought to have a computer as a backup just in case the laptop goes out.
It's not that it doesn't need to be online capable; it is that its purpose will not be being on line.
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Listener2307
Any interest in learning to build your own?
I built mine - the one I am using - about 10 years ago. It probably wasn't cost effective, but it sure has been personally rewarding to know that I can change out everything, upgrade everything, and that I own the copy of Win 7 64 bit that I am running.
I got into that at the turn of the century. I had a full size tower with something like 13 bays, a mid tower, and then a mini, all stacked on each other. I had ambitious dreams of loading those bays with so many hard drives....but that was back in the apartments and I am long out of it. One of the angles of why is that I am long out of OS. With those computers, I was running something like upgrade versions from W 95 and NT!
It's a nice thought but I think of the problems these days is that I am heavily into USB hard drives.
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It is a bit complex for my laptop. It HAD 3 USB's....but a wine spill 2 years ago took out the starboard one. One port usb is for the keyboard and the mouse, hence leaving only one. So, essentially, most transfers are to the drive on the laptop and then from the laptop to whatever. My daily diary pictures, for example, go to the laptop from the thumbdrive.....and then, with the printer now hooked into the USB, from the laptop to the printer.
I use an external keyboard because it has been my experience that what goes first on the laptop is the keyboard.
My thrifty self says I ought to review my resources to see if I can do it before I spend the cash....but my thinking self says I ought to have a computer as a backup just in case the laptop goes out.
It's not that it doesn't need to be online capable; it is that its purpose will not be being on line.
Thanks!
I got into that at the turn of the century. I had a full size tower with something like 13 bays, a mid tower, and then a mini, all stacked on each other. I had ambitious dreams of loading those bays with so many hard drives....but that was back in the apartments and I am long out of it. One of the angles of why is that I am long out of OS. With those computers, I was running something like upgrade versions from W 95 and NT!
It's a nice thought but I think of the problems these days is that I am heavily into USB hard drives.
If all you need is USB ports, have you considered a USB hub?
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