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Originally Posted by zakthor
Nope: its still a terrible time to buy. Wait 5 more years and you'll be getting a much more reasonable value for your dollar. 
Seriously: Just buy what you need and no more, computers are always the opposite of future proof.
I'm sort of in the market now for a new lenovo thinkpad. Love them with the 4k screens. Durable and great software support. Just waiting for current unit to really poop the bed.
Longer we hold off the better the next model will be.
Edit: wrt p620
I had 2 for work with a5000. One of them developed some sort of power supply error and kept shutting off. Lenovo support was beyond useless, no one had the special power supply, nothing in that box was standard, was a giant liability. I eventually ordered a third one through work and sent the other one back.
Damn fast machine but I can't figure what threadripper is for other than some very special machine learning loads. I can't figure what the purpose would be for a threadripper with a crappy card like a t1000.
Ryzen 9 is great and much less power hungry, get one of them instead. |
One reason I stay away from Dell computers is they have the "Dell flavor" for all their computer parts that are almost but not quite off the shelf. You will need to figure out the model of computer from the tag ID and download the drivers from Dell. Connectors are just a but off from standard.
I just build my computers from the parts available and plug them together, and make my computer my way, with the RAM modules and hard drives I want. All 100% industry standard. The only bad part is that I have to be my own tech support when I have an issue. I have had to actually call Microsoft support and talk to them. That was a surprisingly pleasant phone call and I talked to a young man that walked me through a weird issue.
My Microsoft Surface tablet is just a few years old, and works great. It can not be upgraded to Win 11 and when Win 10 goes off support, I will have to see how long it will keep working properly.