I’ve been running a Shuttle XS36V4 for a couple years now with good results. I have a 250 GB SSD along with 8 GB of ram. Running WD, WxSim and several temp monitor programs (home automation type) with W7 Pro and the CPU barely breaks a sweat. Also very low power running 10 - 12 watts max with a JJ1900. Actually some of the newer Shuttles look very promising also.
The SSD in my tiny Chinese one gave up the ghost a couple of months ago (after 3 years). Have put in 128 GB one now after a struggle to find one that would fit (it’s a bare PCB about 5 x 3 cm). I feel more relaxed now it has the extra free space.
Do you remember when Bill Gates said 640 kb of RAM and 5 MB of HDD was enough for any PC?
I know he said it but it was before my time with my 1st PC, i was on Windows 95 so i just missed the dos years
although dos 7 i think it was was still accessible, i think we were talking low ram then though, about 1mb or sommat daft
like that lol
That’s unfortunate. The Intel SSD in my Atom WD PC has been running 24x7 for 5 years now, it tells me it has 90% life left
The Intel has a maintenance function that is scheduled to run each night. I have a couple of Samsung SSD’s too but how they handle their housekeeping is mystery :?
An hour and 15 minutes to install rubbish, namely, speech recognition, English typing (thats for you guys over the pond i beleive :x ) also 358mb of Englush (US) Retail Demo Content WTF?? more speech and handwriting stuff, about a gig’s worth so far and its still installing stuff even though its completed lol Why, just, why…
Win 7 only has about 3 years to go before end of life so not good to be getting into now. No way I’m going Win 8 and Linux is barely OK if you only need to run Linux software. It’s good for servers but I find it difficult on the desktop (and I have a few Linux ‘desktop’ systems that I have to use from time to time so that opinion is based on experience and not prejudice).
It was mostly tongue in cheek be seriously, these updates that you dont really have a lot of control over in Win 10
can be a major rectal hurter (oo thats not a word lol) spent an hour updating/adding updates for cortana speech
and language etc, i dont use her, i am perfectly happy with Hi Galaxy
Exactly! So much crap that’s of no use on a wx pc (or any other pc that I own), and in later versions they seem to have blocked the tricks that could shut most of it down
I have decided to stick with W7 because it works and I probably will after end of life as well as I never allow it to update. My WD PC runs only weather stuff 99% of the time and the other 1% it’s only me so I’m careful about what I do with it. Everything else I run PC wise is Linux and my weather PC would be the same but for the problem of getting WD to do what I need under Linux, each time I test the Linux version it seems problematic, plus running WXSim would have to be under Wine which again is problematic. This stuff is the only thing which stops me ditching Windows completely. I can understand in a business environment Linux can be problematic but mainly because so much software is Windows only but in a home environment I struggle to find anything I cannot do under Linux. My wife’s laptop runs a stable Linux and she does not notice I moved her off Windows some years ago #-o
There is a problem with running obsolete versions of any software, even in a home environment. Even if you’re careful you can still get compromised and if your system is obsolete you’ll probably never know. If you are compromised then you may become part of a botnet which could cause you problems more generally with your ISP blocking your connection. The compromised system might also be used to act as a Trojan horse within your home network and might lead to other systems becoming compromised, or your internal network traffic being monitored, potentially with man-in-the-middle monitoring to see encrypted traffic.