Re: [tlug] EE question (was: VPN?)

[Benjamin Kowarsch <trijezdci@example.com>]

On 9 July 2018 at 09:30, David J Iannucci wrote:

> It would help if you could tell us what is is. Better yet, find the
> spec sheet on line and give us a link to it.

It's a ThinkCentre m92p 2121-D6U (a little 'ways down the sheet):

Those are very nice machines. And a real steal for only 8 USD, Wow!

Lenovo sell those second hand (probably refurbished) via Amazon marketplace around 20.000 JPY ...

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-DisplayPort-%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0RGB%E5%87%BA%E5%8A%9B-Windows7Pro64bit/dp/B071WWF3MC/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531110339&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=ThinkCentre+m92p+2121-D6U

Otherwise, they go for around 15.000 ~ 18.000 JPY second hand. Without PSU the market value is  probably around 10.000 ~ 15.000 JPY.

Glad you didn't fry it, that would have been a real shame.

> One of the best ways to make sure it's not fully loaded is to use an
> SSD instead of an HDD, which one would normally want to do for
> performance reasons anyway.

Definitely something I will do down the pike when I have time and a
little extra money to put into it. I'm thinking it might make a very
nice little firewall or something.

This also makes a very nice desktop as long as you have sufficient RAM. For a firewall you probably want something fanless.

I have a much older ThinkCentre M55 (Pentium D dual core @3.GHz) and I am running Kubuntu 18 on it. It only had 1 GB of RAM, with that it was sluggish, but after a memory upgrade to 4GB its running very nicely, including playing (streamed) movies at 1920x1080 (HDTV).

In any event I would recommend you get the original power supply for this machine, its a "whopping" 4000 JPY (second hand) ...

https://www.saiyasune.com/J4562466344778.html

... but considering that you only paid 8 USD for the box, the accumulated total would still be a bargain for this machine.

regards

benjamin