Wanted: urgent shopping advice for NUC-like desktop

[Jared Norris]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 03:04, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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Hi Marco,

I guess the question is a little unclear. If you have a short list of
potential options surely you just purchase the best one you can afford at
the time from that list? If you want to be sure it will work with Ubuntu
I'd recommend googling the model number and Ubuntu. If you're after a
single data point I have a NUC8i7HVK that I put a 2tb SSD and 32gb ram in
and it works a treat.

Regards,
Jared
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