I Bought a new Desktop Computer today.

[Chipper Chat]

Went to the local Best Buy and purchased a nice HP Pavillion for $649.00 (reg price $1150.00). Figured they may double tomorrow after Shithead does his Day One tariff thingie.
Like a lot of you I plan to go underground for 2 years. Will support local Dem activities (deep-red Indiana) and try to keep the Party alive here.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Specs? RAM Qty and Design? Processor, Hard Drive.?

Given the maturity of the PC market, I assume you got a good system.

[Chipper Chat]

5. HP PAVILLION AMD RYZEN 7

16GB 1TB SSD.
Natural silver which is a welcome change after20 years of everything black.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. 1 TB of SSD storage. Sweet. You can save your entire digital life in that hard drive.

[Polybius]

9. I have 3tb and I'm running out of space

I thought that I would never fill it up.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. JFC, do you document your entire everyday life on 1440p?

[Polybius]

11. Lol, my life is too boring to document

But I do like to do amateur photography and videography, and the latter can take up a ton of space in 4k.

Modern games also use huge amounts of data.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. I got 30 years of every customer quotes I ever did. With files. That only taken up 30 GB's of space.

I couldn't eat bytes that quick.

[Polybius]

22. The crazy part is that I'm not even a big modern gamer

I guess I have around 50 games from Steam that have been bought and downloaded over the years. Some are 75+ gb's a piece.

Filming a 20 minute video in 4k also takes up a lot of space. I like to do outdoor video shots of scenery, such as by the ocean, the piers, or even local historical geographic locations.

[OAITW r.2.0]

23. Wow. blows my mind. Never had need for that kind of data management.

[William769]

14. I have a 1 tb, hd 2 r tb external hard drives

And I just bought a 3rd 4 TB hard drive.

I blew through 1 TB in a blink of an eye.

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. I cannot imagine what one could fill in 1 TB. let alone 4 terrabytea.

[William769]

18. My life!

Home movies transferred digital format, more pictures than I can count, a music collection that can't be beat.

Just about everything I have ever written.

My life is well documented. I am the gate keeper to my inner soul.

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. Like I mentioned, I have 40 years or engineering files, excel. pdf docs, collected over 40 years, equating to 9000

unique quotes with revisions. 40 Gigs.

[William769]

21. Compare a .....doc excel or pdf to a video file or even an MP3

Apples & oranges. Also please don't tell me that "I have 40 years or engineering files" was used as a superior tactic to make me feel inferior because it didn't work.

I would hope that you would have the basic understanding on what type of files hold how much bytes/megabytes/gigabytes.

One of my favorite games has 75 gigabytes. That's just one game.

Have a nice evening.

[claudette]

27. I have a

1 tb external drive
1/2 for my weekly backups and 1/2 for all my phone and important papers

[lapfog_1]

20. I have 1.4 PB of SSD and another 250 ish TB of HDD

of course to move the data around I have a home installed 10Gbit network with multiple switches and some bonded ( 20 GigE links between storage systems

[Greg_In_SF]

2. HP has

several plants in the US. Does it say where it was made?

[pstokely]

3. the parts inside could be from anywhere

cars assembled in the US have parts from all over

[Chipper Chat]

6. Mexico

[Jack Valentino]

4. Good move! Wish I could do it now, but I have to wait.

I plan to try for a refurbished machine by Dell or HP to go cheaply, and hopefully escape tariffs by buying a used machine (although across the board price increases could still affect the used markets a little as well, indirectly).

[Initech]

12. I need a new laptop and a new GPU for my desktop.

I'll probably be buying the GPU first since the 5000 series come out in a couple of weeks.

[OAITW r.2.0]

17. You can get pretty good laptops at Walmart or any PC retailor pretty cheap.

Market for PC tech computers are stagnant. The next wave of supercomputers will be out of our budget capabilities. But not for Elon Musk!

[Hope22]

8. Be sure to check the pricing in 30 days. Who knows if people stop spending

You may get a pricing refund if it drops. Looks like you got a great discount up front though! a+

[William769]

15. Congrats on you new desk top.

[Captain Zero]

24. If you get to Indy sometime

Give me a holler.

[msongs]

25. congrats! must run like mad. recently got a dell 8960 and after 2 hours purging windows 11 garbage its a breeze nt

[claudette]

26. I don't

think I could ever get rid of my MAC mini exception to buy a newer version. I absolutely love it. Best of luck to you with your new one!

[retread]

28. A couple of years ago I bought a cheap macmini(2014). Gradually it became my most used machine.

When the m4 macmini came out in December I upgraded to the basic model and added 1tb of external nvme ssd to one of the rear Thunderbolt ports.
I think I'm good to go for 10-15 years unless I'm again seduced by a must-have upgrade.

[claudette]

29. It may be

small in size but the mini does a fantastic job. I love that it doesn’t take up much room, too! 😊