In the market for a new Desktop.

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Okay, so, after eleven-and-a-half years, my old HP Desktop running an
i7 2600 with 4GB of RAM finally bit it, and while I was able to dust
off an old Dell, its running a 9-year-old Celeron and hasn't a spare
bay for any of the data drives in my old HP, so I've decided I can no
longer put off buying a new computer.

I'd like to spend $700 or less, but I've secured funding that will let
me go as high as $1000.

Based on past experience, I'd like to get another HP Desktop since
every HP me or my family has owned lasted over a decade of daily use
in less than ideal operating environments while I don't think we've
ever had any non-HP last half that.

I'm not particularly picky about the CPU, though I'd like something
from at least this decade that would be an appreciable upgrade over
the i7 2600, and my understanding is that AMD's Rizon product line
provides better bang for buck than Intel's i line.

I'm even less picky about the GPU since I'm blind and won't be hooking
up a monitor, though having the GPU to spare to run accessible games
that insist on wasting GPU cycles on polygons that won't be displayed
or to play around with non-graphics applications that benefit from GPU
would be nice.

I want to upgrade to at least 8 GB of Ram and would prefer at least 16
GB of RAM.

For Internal storage, I suspect just about any SDD that comes with a
pre-built tower is going to be overkill for my system drive, but
insufficient as my primary data drive(my root partition on this dell
is 16GB with another 16GB swap partition and most of the drive for my
home partition), and the old HP has a pair of 3.5" SATA HDDs(1 4TB,
the other 2TB) I'd like to transplant to the new PC, so it would be
ideal if all I needed was to slide the drives into bays and run new
SATA cables. And while 4TB SSDs are a thing, the current price is such
I'd sooner keep my current primary data drive and upgrade the
secondary and external(also 2TB) HDDs to hold a complete back up each
instead of a complete backup between them.

I don't care what OS is preinstalled as I'm going to be formatting the
SSD and installing Debian Linux regardless.

For removable storage, I would prefer to buy a tower with a built-in
CD/DVD/BD combo Writer or failing that, such an optical drive that I
can just slide in and run a SATA cable. I would prefer to not deal
with the hassle of hooking up an external drive. I would also like at
least one and preferably two full-sized SD slots, preferably of a
style that leaves the SD card flush with the face of the reader.

For ports and jacks, I suspect any Tower I buy is going to have more
USB and video ports than I'll ever use, but I would prefer to buy
something with 3.5 mm earphone and microphone jacks, or failing that,
a just works with Linux solution for adapting my 3.5mm wired earphones
for whatever ports it has.

They're probably standard nowadays, and would be a nice to have, but I
can live without Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Also, probably a pipedream, but something I can just pop a Debian
install disc into and start the installation on first boot would be
nice, but I suspect just about anything from a mainstream vendor is
going to come with a broken boot order and require sighted help from
one of my housemates to fix.

Also, I have no interest in buying a laptop, and while I'm comfortable
installing SATA drives, I want something pre-built.

At the moment, my frontline pick for my potential new machine is the
following HP system from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Bluetooth-Con … amp;sr=8-3

Which I understand is running a 2-year-old version of AMD's equivalent
to the I7, has an SDD large enough to hold copies of my most accessed
files, has the space to add my HDDs, has a SD slot(though of the kind
where the card protrudes a bit), lacks a optical drive but has a bay
for adding one... the biggest stumbling block is that it doesn't seem
to have 3.5 mm audiojacks and I'm not sure how long the current
discount from MSRP will last(It'll likely be Monday before I have the
funds needed to purchase in hand, and it might be Tuesday before
they'll be available to my debit card). Also, I was pointed at the
following Optical drive:

https://www.amazon.com/LG-Super-Interna … deae8f9840

As a possible option to install in the HP, though I'm wondering if its
actually compatible as one of the pre-existing Q&A on the HP mentioned
the drive bay being proprietary to HP instead of standard and the
drive in question being LG.

So, anyone have any advice for a blind linux user in the market for a
new, pre-built desktop?

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