On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > What Refurbished means? newegg: "Refurbished" products have been tested to ensure compliance with original manufacturer specifications, and MAY include a limited manufacturer warranty - see the item's product page for details." > The hardware by itself looks nice but it might be a noisy machine. > HP support only windows Vista for this machine and I do not know what > bios and CHIPS it was built upon yet. > > If it has the parts that this review claims: > http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-compaq-business-dc7800/4507-3118_7-32598385.html I noticed the TPM 1.2 . Am I going have to start dealing with the "trusted" computing crap when I get another computer? Also, I just noticed that the seller's answer to a question suggests that the power supply is borderline. > Due to "2.33" I assume it's not the E6750 but maybe E6550. > And as long you do not expect it to lift your desktop to the air it > should be a good machine. So no gotchas with Core 2 Duo and 2G of RAM. > Compared to INTEL ATOM it is rated for 65w which most ATOM are about 15w. > > Basic EMAIL(not 40k emails) and basic browsing(not too much concurrently > open tabs) should run simultaneously by default. Development work. > If you can buy the 4GB as a package it will give you more air to breath > while comparing it to the old machine. > On 05/12/13 22:02, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> I'm considering the beast listed here, especially if my current beast dies: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883250296&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-83-250-296-_-Product >> I note that it has an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2G of RAM. >> It has those in common with a lot of cheap PC's I've seen. >> Are there gotchas here that I should know about? >> I'm already aware that Core 2 is on Intel's discontiued list. >> My current beast has Pentium 4 with 4G of RAM. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos