Granted that it only matters if paying the danegeld to Microsoft, but there is one very good reason to get a good processor straight off: changing it later counts as a new installation and has to be activated like a new computer.
I return to circle around this hateful notion because the thought of doing a bare metal install of linux with no guru backup as my first major dealing with it is menacing with spikes of driver conflict. I circle back again, to a cheap refurb with a new mobo and cpu, but know the
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I return to circle around this hateful notion because the thought of doing a bare metal install of linux with no guru backup as my first major dealing with it is menacing with spikes of driver conflict. I circle back again, to a cheap refurb with a new mobo and cpu, but know the
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows