From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suggestions for 1L computer to run Emacs 2019 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:00:42 +1100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="158497"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 06 08:25:34 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1grHaP-000f3H-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:25:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grHaO-0001hn-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grHZx-0001hi-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grHZw-00070r-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54524 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grHZw-00070V-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 02:25:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1grHZu-000eSx-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:25:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:tKIXDG5Y/b6cINgwewju49ZfY8A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119214 Archived-At: >> What alternatives are there to the following: >> >> - Mac Mini (late 2018) >> - Lenovo Tiny (Model P 330) > > I think you'll want to be more clear in what you're looking for. What I have is the Mac Mini (late 2009) and on to it GNU/Emacs runs. Happily. The hardware consists of a twocore cpu, 8Gb ram, 256Gb SSD, gigabit networking. But, the operating system is no longer served as upgradeable. Sadly. Why? my guess is the Metal™ subsystem for accelerated graphics display won't interface with the vintage Nvidia device driver, a marketing problem, not a software engineering problem. Having read [1] if I were to pick a Mac Mini cpu for GNU/Emacs, is the i3 cpu better than i5, i7? I am looking for hardware with "fit and finish" improving on what I have and for the operating system to be free and open where possible. System76, HP, ChromeOS suppliers satisfy the 1L constraint but they don't look serious like, not even, the Apple TV puck. > A cubietruck definitely fits the 1L constraint and runs a recent Emacs > just fine, and there are hordes of similar little beasts out there. The cubieboard is like the Raspberry Pi, some have the Mathematica package. The look of them is like the fork in Toy Story 4. --- Footnotes [1] https://wp.me/p51SSp-dmc -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "What is connectivity?" -John Sculley