Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

[Carruth, Rusty]

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…)

For what, just a bit over $300.

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Todd Cole
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

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
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

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com<mailto:toddc at azloco.com>> wrote:
Resell Electronics the retail store is a Division of Westech Recyclers

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com<mailto:Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>> wrote:
2GB RAM?  IMHO, 8G is minimum any more (ok, MAYBE 6G, but 4G is just too close to getting in to swap thrashing…)

And, wow, Resell Electronics sounds like a place I need to keep on my contacts list!

How do they acquire their stuff?

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org<mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org>] On Behalf Of Todd Cole
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Good Cheap PC to play MP3s and MP4 video? (Was: OT Mac Mini obsolescent?)

Resell Electronics 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

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Aaron Jones <retro64xyz at gmail.com<mailto:retro64xyz at gmail.com>> wrote:
Libre Computer Board AML-S905X-CC (2GB) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074P6BNGZ?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

Buy that with sdcard and case. Use amazon smile. Done.



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