Subj : Re: building PC's
To   : Arelor
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Jun 06 2025 07:19:54

-=> Arelor wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 Ar> Well, that is a bad metric because my machines also tend to work after
 Ar> 10 years of intensive use, and for personal use I buy the cheapest used
 Ar> machines I can find.

There's a lot to be said for buying the top of the line off-lease. Dell,
Lenovo and HP all sell a lot of systems under 3-year business leases,
which means some portion of those come back to the manufacturer after 3
years. They renew them and sell them to the secondary market, who sell
them usually pretty cheap.

Corporate PCs usually have better driver support, some come with
advanced features like RAID, and end up being a good buy. Buy a
"workstation" and you'll get better CPUs, usually tool-less assembly,
and better build quality than regular PCs.

Way back when, I picked up a Dell Precision Workstation off a 3-year
lease. Ran it for 10 more years. Upgraded from a dual core to quad-core
CPU, bought a USB 3 card, the rest of the system ran perfectly. The only
reason I replaced it was that the RAID drivers were EOL and trying to
get them running on a non-supported OS was do-able, but challenging.

I think it was $300 when I bought it.


 
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