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>You think that you need your computers up to date because you are a geek and you must stay up to date to remain competent. Nah, I think I need a new computer
by quickben 10y ago
>You think that you need your computers up to date because you are a geek and you must stay up to date to remain competent.
Nah, I think I need a new computer because the $900 one I have (4 core haswell oc to 4.6 Ghz, 16 GB ram, 3 drives) and the $600 server I have (4 core Sandy, xeon, 32 GB ram, 5 drives), take anywhere between 2 days and 3 weeks to finish the tasks I throw at them regularly.
Between the MLC SSDs, tons of RAM, ton of CPU power, for $1500, I wouldn't even look at MBP from the current batch, let alone one from the last one.
I am a geek, I am competent, and I am fully planning on two new computers this year. Just waiting to see how Zen turns out.
64GB Ram / ea. 1 GB SSDs, probably on ZFS, 8 cores / 16 threads (to stay in the cheap consumer range). This will probably be doable for under $2k.
So, as a geek, this is what I do to remain competent, hardware wise.
TLDR: You can't just assume that because you don't need a more powerful hardware for blogging or what have you, that the rest of us also don't need one.
I can't manage with less, because life is short.
- knlje 10y agoI don't assume that people blog only. I do HPC for a living and pay for resources on demand. Not everyone can manage but more of you could if you wanted.
- toor2 10y agoCan't you just use AWS or an equivalent cloud service instead of owning a server?
- quickben 10y agoI look into it every few months actually. It always turns out to be substantially more expensive. The disk performance in vms also either arent there, or are just too pricey. Another part of the story is that if you roam the local sell forums, you'll find an older Xeon servers for cheap. So, that leaves electricity, which is not that bad.