Hi all,

A disclaimer for my posts in the Tuxedo/Costco comparision: Nowadays
when I buy a laptop, I buy it used from Refresh Computers. I find older
laptops more compatible with Linux, and I find newer laptops very
overpriced. That $850 for the Costco laptop? I'd *never* pay that much
for a laptop. They break. They get stolen. The go obsolete. My last
laptop purchase was about $300-$350, and has a 1TB NVMe and (IIRC) 16GB
RAM.

As far as my desktop computers, which I buy every 3 to 6 years, I buy
all the parts and put them together. That way I get the exact features
I want. My current desktop was about $2200.00 USD, with 6 cores, 12
threads, 65 watts, a fanless Radeon video card, 2TB NVMe root
partition, 14TB 7200 spinning rust, and 64GB RAM, although one of the
ramsticks went bad so now it's only 48GB RAM. Oh, and I have a built-in
DVD burner. Most cases don't even allow that anymore.

SteveT

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