Originally Posted By: eddie1261
... you are chasing your tail no matter what you do.

Absolutely!

I don't buy the latest, greatest, whatever, machines for precisely that reason. I can manage just fine with 2/3 or 1/2 the performance at 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost.

Some years back I replaced an old fileserver. I couldn't even get the local "recycle for the third world" people to take it. Too old and under-powered apparently. It was working just fine for me, but I wanted to reduce the power consumption ... the old machine was a 486 tower with multiple HDDs. The new one was a fanless ITX with one HDD (I back-up to a second machine, off-site).

The thing one notices now is things like Core gen 7 through 12, Pentium, Celeron and Atom all available concurrently, not to mention the ever increasing digits after the 'i'. It's all a bit crazy, really. And that's all before one considers AMD, Apple and others.

My DMZ and mail machine is a Raspberry Pi and despite doing all the spam and malware rejection, its not even trying -- Load average 0.00, CPU ~ 0.5% not so much "no sweat" as couch potato.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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