I am trying to get rid of a recently wiped Dell XPS 420 tower PC (truly huge, with vast amounts of interior space and cooling; state of the art in 2007). I was thinking that it wasn’t a bad machine, actually, with four CPU cores and 3 GB of RAM. Then someone emailed me an article about the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone, which has…. 3 GB of RAM (and 8 CPU cores, but who is counting?).
[Separately, if you want to feel better about your Canon EOS 1D C body, which at $12,000 is one of the cheaper 4K video cameras out there, note that this new Samsung phone also can record 4K video.]
So… any gamers/system builders/Linux fans out there who want this Dell XPS 420 with a phone-sized RAM?
I recently tried giving away a circa 2007 MacPro + monitor to my siblings and their kids (ages 8-14). Nobody would take it! Everybody has or wants an iPad, nobody wants a desktop.
Philip, I’d suggest the MIT Reuse mailing list: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/reuse
Things go very fast on that list, and people will take anything, it seems.
Steve
You might check with your local Civil Air Patrol chapter … I bet you’d find this is a big improvement over what they’ve got!
If that MacPro will run Mountain Lion I’d certainly consider it. Email is danwalker [dot] ak (at) gmail
Sounds like it would make a good FreeBSD/ZFS box. I’d take it, but are you willing to ship?
I use nearly the same machine as my gaming computer. Maybe its time for an upgrade.
Steve: Whoa. You were right about the reuse list! About 20 responses within 10 minutes. The machine is now in a graduate student’s living room!