Windows 8

[smokeyjoe53]

Definetly easier to build dedicated machine or just buy an el cheepo from tiger direct

 

[Old Bearkat]

More fun to build it than buy it, if you have the spare time.

 

[rainjacktx]

I used to build computers as a side biz 8-10 years ago. The very first one built was for myself back when the AMD Athlon chip first came out. 800mhz of screaming speed, 80 gig hdd, and the first guy in Briscoe County to put 512 megs of RAM in the same computer. It was matched with a 19"crt monitor and Bose speakers.

Nowadays, my cell phone has more power than that Athlon machine.

 

[oldfat&bald]

I put a new hdd in. 2 gb ram. ended up putting a new usb wireless nic in.OS loaded in about 15 minutes. I am able to access all my other systems on the network. Still haven't got the HP 3600 printer installed but it picked up an Epson AIO immediately.
I don't think you'll have a problem with the partitions but if you wanted to and if the bios supports booting from USB, install on
a flash drive and boot from that.
The whole OS is only 512mb...............

Are you supposed to have a headache after reading this?

 

[smokeyjoe53]

I built a server a few years ago and installed 3 terabyte HDD's.
I thought it was overkill and the client would never use all that space.
6 months later I put in another tb drive. Archiving videos takes a lot of space......
I think the new windows OS takes up close to 3 gbs.

I still enjoy building systems but there is not much profit
In it anymore.
Besides, most people now prefer tablets. I haven't sold a desktop
In over a year......

 

[Dogface]

I put a new hdd in. 2 gb ram. ended up putting a new usb wireless nic in.OS loaded in about 15 minutes. I am able to access all my other systems on the network. Still haven't got the HP 3600 printer installed but it picked up an Epson AIO immediately.
I don't think you'll have a problem with the partitions but if you wanted to and if the bios supports booting from USB, install on
a flash drive and boot from that.
The whole OS is only 512mb...............

Are you supposed to have a headache after reading this?

I know how to turn a computer on.

 

[rainjacktx]

when Diablo III was released last year, I was going to build a special Diablo III machine. Bit the. I found out the game was going to be online only.

I may have a geek streak, but I am not WoW geeky.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

The on button is what we refer to as "The Soviet Switch".......

 

[topher80]

Been using Linux since 1997. Used OpenBSD for a while then went back to Linux in 2006 and started using Ubuntu. That became a disaster with the release of "Unity" so I switched to Lubuntu. Lightweight desktop manager but Ubuntu updates under the hood. Has worked great for 2 years now. Also use old RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi. Now THAT is an OS.

 

[pecospete]

I thought this was an all english thread?