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When ya need a powerful computer ,,,,,,,
forgemonkey
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,,,,,,,,,, Just build it yourself. 🤣
Grandson, junior in HS, decided he wanted a faster, more memory gizmo, so he bought all the components and is building one.
He teaches swimming lessons to little kids and lifeguards at the indoor pool. Saved his $$$ and voila, built it in three days.
EDIT 3/25 ,,,,,, Here’s the PC ,,,,, I have no idea where the monitor is located.
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Impressive young man. Good job.
In these times, the opportunities will be endless for him.
That's all fine and dandy, but can he tune a 1911?
My oldest son built my desktop when he worked for intel.
Still working great.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
He can 3d print one!
Yeah, if he just had somebody to teach him. Wait, never mind !! 🤣
In our day, it was cars. I had cousin who built a farm pickup.
If this kid is as smart as he seems, he'll load that computer with some version of Linux.
good for him proves such traits run in the family congratulations young man
like some of you my time was cars and mechanical things if I could take it apart I could repair it 98% of the time still can
I missed the boat on computers by years I do remember when they were just coming out with home versions thet cost as much as the house and needed a degree in how to just operate it 😣
one of my great moments of dumbness I though they will never do well who would want a computer at home and what for ?
needless to say I did not only miss the boat on the ground floor but the island I was on sunk too LOL
I was an early adopter of computers. Started with a Radio Shack TRS-80 and then a two-floppy IBM running DOS. I wasn't and still aren't a techie, just a user. Went from DOS to Windows (for 30+ years) and finally to Linux. Linux beats Windows all to hell.
Like Ditchrunner , I passed on the early computers. Nice toy but what practical use? Well , I didn't buy mosins and smles when they were cheap either !
Back before computers were a 'thing' I had a guy tellin' me I needed to take a thousand dollars and invest it in this new upstart computer company. It's gonna be great! he said. I figured computers were just a flash in the pan phenomenon we were seeing and it wouldn't go anywhere. Oops!
Oh, the company? Microsoft.
C&P from Nasdaq website;
Had you invested $1,000 in Microsoft at its IPO, you would have acquired 47 shares at $21 per share. Adjusting for the stock splits, you'd actually have 13,536 shares today with a cost basis of $0.0729 per share.
Given Microsoft now trades at $238.73 per share, that translates to a return of 327,401%.
In dollar terms, that $1,000 investment in 1986 would be worth a whopping $3.23 million today. But it gets better, because Microsoft has paid a dividend since 2003 -- and assuming you never sold a single share along the way, you'd have also received $341,513 in dividends.
Given Microsoft continues to pay a quarterly dividend of $0.68 per share, you would still be collecting a cool $36,817 each year, or 36 times your initial $1,000 outlay.
Maybe forgemonkey's grandson can use that computer to power a time machine. 😁
"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 🍺 🇺🇲 🍔
Looks like grandson loves what he is doing and that's half the battle. I know very few failures amongst those who like to tinker.
I was the network guy for Assoc. of Graduates at West Point for over 10 years. Wang mini computer 2200 with two terminals on my desk to ram rod Assembly Magazine. Register of Graduates, Subscriptions. and fund raising records for all West Point Graduates. Not a programmer but I knew the custom software better than any of the 90 employees that worked there.
Wang became a dinosaur when PC's took over and I was outclassed by a fella with 2 degrees in computer science. They would not let me go and I continued to print subscription and fund raising letters in color on printing presses. When we moved to new Alumni Building, Herbert Hall, they put me in charge of the whole building run by one PC on my desk. I enjoyed running the Building more than dealing with 90+ employees on the network. I was very lucky to have another trade to fall back on and they kept me for 41 Years until I decided to retire at 63.-------------------------------Ray
I started out with an IBM PC JR. I wrote thousands of programs with that computer and had the most fun with that one. Then I eventually upgraded to newer computers, and have probably had more than 15 different ones through the years.
Joe
I think I'm down to five. From seven. Not one of them runs Windows or Mac.
I went from a desk top HP way back when to several brands of laptop computers over the years. Seems that each laptop would only last an average of about 3 years before they failed and were replaced. I bought my current Chinese made (ironic) Toshiba Satellite Skullcandy laptop 10 years ago!! Still going 😮
I bought a Lenovo laptop, HP printer and two Dell monitors when I started nursing school and they have been serving me well..
It used to be you saved a decent amount by building it yourself. Now, at best you break even. But, the best thing is you can custom configure to your own liking.
Don't neglect refurbished machines, either. You can get very good business-class machines that are factory tested and restored to new condition at places like woot! and newegg. For about half or a third the original cost.
They aren't bleeding edge technology, but are only one generation old. Plenty good for almost all of us. I've bought several and haven't had a single issue. (Of course, I immediately delete Windows, which is why they run trouble-free.)