... Well, new to me, anyway.
A friend, whose significant other passed away and left behind a PC, gave me the whole setup. I was expecting some junk that I would strip of anything valuable and then toss but I was pleasantly surprised to be handed a 22" AOC monitor (1920x1080) and a 2012 vintage ThinkStation:
Yeah, it came with a crappy old mouse and keyboard (both wired), but for the low low price of -nothing-, I'm not going to complain. I know it's twelve years old, but I'll admit to not being shy about old computers - my current Windows box is older than that. He even gave me the printer - a fairly recent HP Envy.
The OS is good old Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, which he had a relative "clear out" - though it still has the previous owner's user name as the admin account (w/o any password). The inside of the box is surprisingly clean so I suspect the previous owner bought the thing as a refurb in the not too distant past. Neither the HD not the fans are making any undue noise, so probably good there.
If I decide to use it as a Windows platform, I'll probably install a bunch of Cygwin stuff like I have on my 32 bit Win7Pro box. But more likely I'll put Linux and one or more USB 3 external hard disks on it and turn it into a file dump because the box that's currently serving that purpose doesn't have any USB 3 ports (it also doesn't have any external hard disks for that reason).
I booted the Lenovo with Tiny Core Linux 15.0 (x86_64) from a USB 2 thumb drive (plugged into a USB 3 port, but -whatever-) and timed the bootup - I got a desktop in 34 seconds from the time I hit ENTER on the grub menu. That's with a fair amount of applications in the "onboot" list, so the machine's not too slow.
A friend, whose significant other passed away and left behind a PC, gave me the whole setup. I was expecting some junk that I would strip of anything valuable and then toss but I was pleasantly surprised to be handed a 22" AOC monitor (1920x1080) and a 2012 vintage ThinkStation:
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Lenovo Thinkstation E31 (Small Form Factor (SFF) tower - no full height slots - all pcie slots empty)
3695H1U (LENOVO_MT_3695)
MFR Date: 1208 (August, 2012)
Motherboard: LENOVO MAHOBAY
BIOS: Lenovo version: 9SKT9CAUS 12/11/2018
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
(4 cores / 4 threads, launched Q2 of 2012)
RAM: 8 GB (4GB DDR3 in bank 1, 4GB DDR3 in bank 3,
banks 0 and 2 are empty)
HD: WDC WD3200AAKS-6 - 3.5", 300-ish GB w/Win7 Pro 64 installed
Graphics: Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
NIC: 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville)
Optical Drive: PLDS DVD-RW DH16ACSH
Ports: 1 legacy 9-pin serial
4 USB 2 (2 front, 2 back)
4 USB 3.0 "SS" (all on back)
1 vga 15-pin
1 display port
1 GbE
multi format media reader
microphone and headphone jacks front and backThe OS is good old Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, which he had a relative "clear out" - though it still has the previous owner's user name as the admin account (w/o any password). The inside of the box is surprisingly clean so I suspect the previous owner bought the thing as a refurb in the not too distant past. Neither the HD not the fans are making any undue noise, so probably good there.
If I decide to use it as a Windows platform, I'll probably install a bunch of Cygwin stuff like I have on my 32 bit Win7Pro box. But more likely I'll put Linux and one or more USB 3 external hard disks on it and turn it into a file dump because the box that's currently serving that purpose doesn't have any USB 3 ports (it also doesn't have any external hard disks for that reason).
I booted the Lenovo with Tiny Core Linux 15.0 (x86_64) from a USB 2 thumb drive (plugged into a USB 3 port, but -whatever-) and timed the bootup - I got a desktop in 34 seconds from the time I hit ENTER on the grub menu. That's with a fair amount of applications in the "onboot" list, so the machine's not too slow.
