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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Impressive. All that’s left to do is go buy yourself a 2TB rotator (laptop drives of this capacity were around $80 on Amazon a while back), put / on the SSD
and /home on the rotator, and you’ve got quite a system, IMHO. (That’s how my laptop is set up…)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For what, just a bit over $300.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Todd Cole<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 06, 2017 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I usually buy the parts computers (bare) then buy the HDD/SDD if available and as much ram as available sometimes I have been able to get 4 8Gb=32GB depends on available stock HDD up to 4TB all used all cheap all tested<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rare to see a SSD over 160GB in stock but the I7's I looked at were all 8GB 160GBSSD with ubuntu installed for 225<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Todd Cole <<a href="mailto:toddc@azloco.com" target="_blank">toddc@azloco.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Resell Electronics the retail store is a Division of Westech Recyclers
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Carruth, Rusty <<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">2GB RAM? IMHO, 8G is minimum any more (ok, MAYBE 6G, but 4G is just too close to getting in to swap
thrashing…)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And, wow, Resell Electronics sounds like a place I need to keep on my contacts list!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How do they acquire their stuff?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Todd Cole<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 06, 2017 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="m183845007798980730m930735039152441920gmail-xbe">850 W Lincoln St, Phoenix, AZ 85007 I was there a few days ago and they had quite a few used dell I3 I5 and I7 in several form factors and configs from 60 to 225.00 with ubuntu and mint preinstalled
ready to go</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Aaron Jones <<a href="mailto:retro64xyz@gmail.com" target="_blank">retro64xyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074P6BNGZ?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074P6BNGZ?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Ubuntu Arizona Team<br>
4605 S PRIEST DR LOT 3<br>
TEMPE AZ 85282-6507 <br>
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