No one cares, but if anyone stumbles upon this I'll happily hear your input, critique, praise, alternatives, anything.
I want to upgrade my current machine and assemble a small LAN with some utility boxes on it for various purposes. The first stage of this is obviously the workstation upgrade. The current machine is the old mac mini that I've been using since 2011 or so, 8 gig of RAM, core2duo, platter disk.
The new one should meet these specs:
- Fast quad core i7
- 16+ gig of RAM
- 250gig reliable SSD
- Small form factor like the mac mini
Its basic spec:
- i7-4770r 3.9 quad core
- mSATA connector, 2.5 bay
- two slots max 16 gig RAM
- 100x100x60mm size
- dual 4k outputs
Along with the new box will come a new monitor, bigger, more pixels, more real estate, more progress. Someone helpfully suggested that the best-value monitor was a Dell P2415Q which I didn't like the look of, too high a pixel density, not big enough. But it has a sibling P2715Q which is $948.75 locally. Any other suggestions welcome! If not, I'll quite likely get exactly that. 5.5 inches more than my current monitor, and roughly 4x the dots, plus vastly superior quality. For my reference: http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=MONDEL2735
Then comes SSD, which SSD? This is interesting, but out of date: viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1229
RAM? Crucial seems the obvious option? Reliability is once again the main priority with speed secondary.
Rough budgeting:
- Bare bones box: 1100-1300
- 16 gig of RAM 100-200
- SSD 150-500
- Monitor 1k
Comments and suggestions totally welcome! Though I don't expect much based on recent trends.
Fred.