Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
fyi Gordon...and thanks for suggesting i look at mini pc's.
i completely underestimated them.
for the princely sum of 500 buckeroons or i guess a few hundred quid gbp i now have two. ..
..one for the net (fanless)...
..one for music production.
i'm a happy boy.
i thought i knew tech haveing spent many years in tech but you got one up on me..kudos.
I should say here that I was mostly talking about mini-ITX PCs, rather than mini-PCs. Mini-ITX tends, I think, to be built more with industrial use in mind and should(!) be quite robust. They also allow me to arrange my own cooling. That's partly as my office gets very warm.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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