Posted on 08/18/2022 8:03:49 PM PDT by ganeemead
A decent quality computer that you might have bought six or 10 years ago lacks very little in being a supercomputer, and could be made into a supercomputer fairly easily. As a general rule, that computer could also be bought for very little money on eBay now. The two things that computer needs: .....
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Have you considered Adobe Illustrator? I have used it for years. I used Corel Draw some, many years ago. I think if you are experienced using Corel Draw you would find many things in Illustrator familiar. And of course Illustrator works with the raster program, Photoshop.
I was able to identify the first 1000 primes in under a week!
No discussion of modern PC performance is complete without mention of NVME.
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I follow a somewhat similar strategy. I buy Dell PCs that are just coming off lease. In the San Antonio area, there are generally many that come with a recent clean install of a MS OS and some have “MS Office” licenses. There are almost always some from military that fit my requirements for under $200. I wouldn’t call them “supercomputers”, though.
I’m a retired engineer that does quite a bit of consulting. Much of it requires analyzing recorded channels of various kinds of data from transducers. I have around a dozen PCs in various locations that I use regularly. I stick with MS since the Libra Office suite doesn’t have a decent spreadsheet program. Most all of the data acquisition suppliers I use, DEWEYSoft, MTS, DATAQ, HBM, etc., have their own proprietary data format, but also will output data in CSV format. This is an ideal fit for EXCEL, but Libre is useless for handling and charting it.
The reason I stick with Dell, is that they have available online driver and OS download support and diagnostics for their old machines. Whenever I need more CPU capability, I just buy another more recent machine, and retire the oldest one. That’s been about once a year. I even keep a couple of old XP machines around, only for running a 20-year-old legal license of AutoCad, which is all I generally need for drafting. I’ve been using my own personal PC since a Timex some half century ago, and started with DTSS in the late 60s. I created my own email system on DTSS in the early 70s. It simply used DTSS BASIC ‘Print’ commands.
I follow a somewhat similar strategy. I buy Dell PCs that are just coming off lease. In the San Antonio area, there are generally many that come with a recent clean install of a MS OS and some have “MS Office” licenses. There are almost always some from military that fit my requirements for under $200. I wouldn’t call them “supercomputers”, though.
I’m a retired engineer that does quite a bit of consulting. Much of it requires analyzing recorded channels of various kinds of data from transducers. I have around a dozen PCs in various locations that I use regularly. I stick with MS since the Libra Office suite doesn’t have a decent spreadsheet program. Most all of the data acquisition suppliers I use, DEWEYSoft, MTS, DATAQ, HBM, etc., have their own proprietary data format, but also will output data in CSV format. This is an ideal fit for EXCEL, but Libre is useless for handling and charting it.
The reason I stick with Dell, is that they have available online driver and OS download support and diagnostics for their old machines. Whenever I need more CPU capability, I just buy another more recent machine, and retire the oldest one. That’s been about once a year. I even keep a couple of old XP machines around, only for running a 20-year-old legal license of AutoCad, which is all I generally need for drafting. I’ve been using my own personal PC since a Timex some half century ago, and started with DTSS in the late 60s. I created my own email system on DTSS in the early 70s. It simply used DTSS BASIC ‘Print’ commands.
When you’ve been using a retail program for decades, you’re not going to just be able to go find a free replacement for it that will do all the same things and have all the buttons and menus in the same places.
I figured it out. I run dual boot Kubuntu/Win 7 Pro. Windows is not allowed to connect to a network or the web and updates are completely turned off. Runs just like the day I installed it.
Not too long ago I came across a YouTube where a guy proved Doom would run on a 386. Not playable on a 386, but it would run.
And bus speed. Bus was the biggest bottleneck in older computers.
The reason I’m not going with Adobe Illustrator is because it’s ridiculously overpriced.
No, my problems with Corel Draw are not functionality I’ve been using it for well over 20 years. I need to upgrade it because I’m upgrading to Windows 11, which I’m not doing because I want to. So I have to use the most recent version of Corel to get it to run. However I dislike the company because they put nagware everywhere. And every time you shut the program off you get a pop up trying to sell you something. Their customer service is worse than non-existent, but that doesn’t bother me cuz I don’t need it in that regard.
Yeah. I think that what is mostly ‘super’ about going this route is the minimal investment. I’ve been picking up laptops and Thinkpads from Ebay for the last 10 years. Stripping out Windows and installing some variation of Linux/Ubuntu. The last 2 had SSD’s on them. Lightning fast.
Not a proponent of web-based data storage or web-based apps, however.
This is a parody article, right? I feel like I was rick rolled.
[[I have a I terabyte SSD, an Nvidia GeForce 1070 graphics card and 32 GiGs of RAM.]]
Yup, Ive got,about the same, but 16 gig ramz and it’s starting to show,it’s limits now. Back in the 90”s if someone had told me about a computer with 1 terabyte ssd, 16 gig ram, and video card with 2 gig ram, I wouldn’t have believed a person could,ever use that “much” computer and storage. My terabyte drive is nearly full now and I only have aboutm8 games, photoshop, a few other photo editing programs, and really not much more. I dual boot, so my windows partition is about 800 gig. I wish I had bought a 2 gig ssd now.
It’s amazing how fast the 1 gig drive filled up. I only use the drive for gaming and photoshop and photo work too- I store,all,the photos and artwork on a separate drive too.
I remember my neighbor saying “what in the world do you need 10 gigs of HD space for?” Back,when drives started getting into the gig realm Lol. Photos back,then were really,small, and not that great quality-wise- today they are between 20 and 30 MG per photo, and photographers have 1000’s of them- sometimes many 1000’s.
Absolutely... All the work on increasing memory and CPU speeds were pointless because buffers and wait states had to be used to slow them back down due to slow bus speeds. Working on bus speed should have been the #1 priority.
Then to top it off we had MS doing their best to steal back any speed advantages with BS unneeded bloat ware. An older guru friend who was on the IBM program from the beginning was blowing his top about this each step of the way... Lol
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