When I had to upgrade a boat load of PCs at an old employer with little budget, I purchased used HP Vectras. They were great PCs to own and operate.
How is that ’super’ ?
The fool who wrote this doesn’t even know there actually is such a thing as a supercomputer. A blockchain blog...
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Figured this was about 2nd-hand smartphones
What I need is a vector program to replace corel draw which I have been using since V3.
I tried Inkscape and it is way too cumbersome for my purposes. Also, I need to be able to import and export EPS, AI, vector PDF, and in a perfect world import my X5 cdr files. Though I can do a workaround on that.
I’ve a buddy who does something like this. He has a Beowulf cluster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster
Just because you add an SSD into your years old computer does not make it into a Super computer.
It improves the rea and write performance of the PC slightly,but then your still stuck with slow memory a slow cpu and a slow graphics card.
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.
This is a parody article, right? I feel like I was rick rolled.
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