Modest desktop machine recommendations
by gadb from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N02D)
Been struggling to get a new (old, second hand) machine that can run Linux and drive 3 independent display monitors. Tried a couple of Lenovo ThinkStations (m73 and m92p) with no success.
I just need a cheap, quiet, ideally (but not neccessarily) small desktop machine that can drive 3 independent displays. I don't do CPU/Memory/IO intensive tasks on this machine and I don't want to play games on it. I thought this would be easy, I thought my demands were modest, but it's already eaten a fair amount of time and I've got precisely nowhere useful. My Surface Pro 3 drives the monitors just fine, but it only has 4Gb of ram (I'd ideally have 8 or 16) and I want to be able to wander off and use the surface as a tablet for reading without disrupting whatever is happening on my desktop machine.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks,
Graham.
I just need a cheap, quiet, ideally (but not neccessarily) small desktop machine that can drive 3 independent displays. I don't do CPU/Memory/IO intensive tasks on this machine and I don't want to play games on it. I thought this would be easy, I thought my demands were modest, but it's already eaten a fair amount of time and I've got precisely nowhere useful. My Surface Pro 3 drives the monitors just fine, but it only has 4Gb of ram (I'd ideally have 8 or 16) and I want to be able to wander off and use the surface as a tablet for reading without disrupting whatever is happening on my desktop machine.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks,
Graham.