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Or go ahead and make whichever choice right now and regret your purchase later, or don't. The keyword was IMO. Obviously if $200 is tripling your budget then y
by worstspotgain 2y ago
Or go ahead and make whichever choice right now and regret your purchase later, or don't. The keyword was IMO.
Obviously if $200 is tripling your budget then you're leaving some unneeded peripheral out. The N100 probably won't work either as the cheapest one on Amazon is apparently $120.
- ssl-3 2y agoThe median of the price range listed is $300. N100 boxes are available for purchase today (not just sometime in the mysterious future) for less than $100, delivered. $300 ÷ $100 = 3, hence: Tripling the budget. (I could have picked the high end of the range, just as you selected the low end, but that would have been disingenuous of me. $300 is right in the middle.)
- worstspotgain 2y agoThe range I gave is based on CPU/RAM/SSD specs obviously, so your N100 system should be specced to match. Here's an i7-11390H/16GB/512GB system you can buy today on Amazon from a somewhat reputable Chinese brand for $170. Its CPU is ~50% faster than a N100 single-threaded and ~80% faster multi-threaded: https://www.amazon.com/ACEMAGIC-11390H-Computer-Desktop-Support/dp/B0C9HWT7TL/ https://www.amazon.com/ACEMAGIC-11390H-Computer-Desktop-Supp... A similarly priced system with a much faster CPU will be on sale in 3 months, maybe sooner. Feel free to spec a similar N100 system on Amazon (or Newegg or a similarly reputable vendor with no-questions-asked returns) for much less.
- ssl-3 2y agoI don't need that shit, though. I don't need to spend the extra money. I don't need to wait between 3 and 11 months. I do need a computer today. And if an N100 meets my needs today, then I'm buying one -- today. Srsly.