For work I'm running 2- 24" monitors plus the onboard screen on my surface pro 3, all very happy, even running 3D modelling on Solidworks. Can highly recommend the Surface Pro's, it really is a great machine, although not what you would call cheap, but it's running an i7 with 8Gb and 512SSD. However I still prefer my 7 year old iMac and if you want a PC Ubuntu on an old PC certainly brings it back to life, yes it's got some limitations, but if you use it as most people do, email, web bit of word processing, you would be able to add a few years of life onto a machine. If you are going to change OS from whatever is on now, then you should consider Ubuntu, it's not hard to learn
Well, the guy selling the PC I'm after is a bit of a card . He was asking £49 or 'make offer'. So, being Scottish, I offered £45. He came back with a counter-offer of... £44.99. So I replied with a counter-offer of £45.01 (Yes, we were both going the 'wrong' way...) We settled on £45. And he's throwing in a monitor cable. Meanwhile, the arrisol company who I won the 24" monitor off claim they made a stock error and are asking if I'll take a 21.5" Dell instead... I think I know what I'm going to say.
HP Compaq Pro 6000, core2duo 3.0GHz, 4GB RAM with Win 7 and COA and a 22" HP Compaq monitor (pleased they're the same make - tho' chust chance) winging their way to me as I type. Lawd - I hope it all works well...
Well, my cup runneth over. Win 7 Pro. 22" monitor on fully-articulated arm - height, tilt, rotate. Boots up from cold in less than one minute - better than my carpy i3 all-in-one upstairs. All in superb cosmetic condition - the inside of the PC is immaculate. Whisper quiet - FAR more so than my main PC wot's beside me now. Even a nigh-on new keyboard and mouse included. Now to install Bridge Base Online and hand it over...
Boots up from cold in less than one minute - better than my carpy i3 all-in-one upstairs. Nothing installed on it yet - just wait til there is. All in superb cosmetic condition - the inside of the PC is immaculate. Case fan not working, no dust being drawn in. Whisper quiet - FAR more so than my main PC wot's beside me now. Processor fan dead, case fan dead = no noise! Even a nigh-on new keyboard and mouse included. Unused because PC doesn't run when software installed. Oh dear
Tee-hee! It has everything the guy needs - well, it will when it has BBO. Fan working beautifully - it's mounted on the front and draws air right over a large finned cooler on the CPU - neatest thing I've seen in ages. Oh you cynics, you .
Case fan not working, no dust being drawn in. Or, It was cleaned before sale. Processor fan dead, case fan dead = no noise! Or, wrong fan or no fan control. Could be running high airflow fan on 12V Not everything unusual means its broken...
Look - I can hear the fan running. It's chust that it's very quiet! And there's only one - it draws air in directly through the CPU's fins. That's it. On board graphics, so no fan needed. It's a really neat unit inside - all quick-detachable items too - all labelled clips on the PSU, DVD, HDD etc. Really impressed. My own PC has at least 4 fans...
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