Wanted: urgent shopping advice for NUC-like desktop

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 02:07:33 AM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-08-03 at 17:28 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > The box that died today
> 
> Make sure it is really dead.
> 
> Spend a few euros to get a professional to take a look at it. It may
> turn out that the box just needs...

Hi Karl,

thanks but this strategy is just not applicable, or relevant, in the
specific circumstance I have already explained several times in this
thread. I apologize if this was not sufficiently clear before.

First, I must get a small but powerful and _reliable_ computer in 2
days at most, to finish urgent jobs before going on vacation. I have
NO time to find a professional, even if most of them had not already
closed for vacation here. So the only advice I can really use in time,
THIS TIME, is pointers to specific NUCs, ShuttlebOX XPCs or Lenovo
ThinkCentres immediately available on Amazon.it, or the closest
mediaworld.it store, see link in previous email.

Second, the box that stopped working has already gone several times
through the exact road you suggest. Every part has been replaced at
least once since when I first assembled that PC 11/12 years ago, and
every part is at least 6 years old now IIRC. Even if it were
repairable with a few tens of Euros and time were not an issue, which
really is, the probability of some other pieces failing two weeks
later are not negligible. As I said, I had already planned to dismiss
it in September, for this and other reasons.

Now, after the summer, some of my friends with skills and time to fix
old hardware for fun may be able to repair that box for free, making
me pay only the parts, so that I may keep that box in some closet as
spare/emergency machine, or donate it to some school. That WOULD make
sense, yes. But I still need something new now.

Marco