LInux - pah humbug.

[The Natural Philosopher]

smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600T CPU @ 2.70GHz (family: 0x6, model: 0x5e, stepping: 0x3)

My dick is bigger than your dick :-)

But yours is faster

[Paul]

No, that string I put there, is an attempt to out-guess what he's got. I think his current CPU is a 4460. Which in the year 2021 is still useful.

That's not the string for my machine.

Paul

[Tim Streater]

I guess the launcher must be a CLI hack.

[Andy Burns]

CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz CPU family: 6 Model: 60 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 Stepping: 3 CPU max MHz: 3800.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 6784.35

Mine's hotter than yours!

[Richard]

You probably need to be less frenetic. Hope it didn't blister your hand.

[Andrew]

Me, and Brian Gaff (but not for the same reason) !

Why not just buy one 43 inch monitor from someone like Dell and have whatever windows you need ?

Andrew

[Andy Burns]

£815 for a dell is getting a bit steep, might be able to twist my own arm for an LG at £600

I was considering changing 27" to 32", 43" might be a bit much at arms length? It would *just* fit the corner desk at the same viewing distance ...

[AJH]

Okay okay but what is a decent upgrade while not consuming a lot of power when booted up but just browsing.

I don't do much processor power hungry things, like video editing.

Or shall I just stick and put the SSD into this I5 desktop.

I'd better get on with it as some sites won't display and as the OS is not supported I doubt I can update browsers, aslo Google Drive won't work.

[Andrew]

There was a Philips 43 inch IPS 4K job on the Novatech website for just over £500 before the pandemic, but I can't see that model now.

[Andy Burns]

I trundled by Currys on the way home, they have a mountain of 43" LG TVs clogging the aisles, in three indistinguishable models, but no 43" monitor in sight, of course the TVs are not on display in a way to easily judge them purely as monitors (is there really much difference in the actual panels nowadays? don't LG make most of them anyway?)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Beware of using a TV as a monitor. there can be a delay of up to 1/2 second on the HDMI video and sound. .

[Andy Burns]

No I won't try that, the TVs don't have displayport that my KVM has, bit annoying that the TVs are £200 cheaper though.

[Steve Walker]

The I5-4460 is generally faster (except for some multi-core benchmarks) than the FX-8370 that I am using. However with sufficient memory and an SSD, the FX-8370 is still a fast and perfectly capable CPU and will probably continue to be so for some years.

[Andrew]

My 22 inch Samsung smart TV works just fine as a monitor.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Depends if you have some swanky reality engine running? Try Football mode.

FWIW, work uses a 43" LG 42UB820B (LED, 4K, IPS, YCbCr 4:2:0) at 4K 30Hz resolution from a HP Elitebook G5 laptop that has two other screens also running.

No noticeable delays on any of them.

Read (and almost believed) a huge amount of guff about chroma subsampling.

TV is the bottom of the spec for that, and the image and fonts are just as sharp as a Dell UltraSharp LCD monitor that sits alongside it.

This TV was purchased in Jan 2015 for £400 from Sainsbury's. This was when 4K was an infant new thing, no visible means of consumers ever getting 4K cheaply streamed into their homes, and so Sainsbury presumably lopped £250 off the price to clear them.

[Jethro_uk]

When we got our TV in 2013, it was from a range that were showing off 4K. Presumably from a memory stick.

[AJH]

Thanks I'll start off with sticking the ssd in this then, I may be away a little while

[ajh]

That seems to work but I see upgrading thunderbird means I cannot remove the reply to sender in the message toolbar. A common complaint it seems.

[Andy Burns]

Which toolbar? The main program one, or the message pane one?

The former is customisable out of the box, for the latter needs an add-on

[ajh]

Thanks I will check that out