New EJBDESK 2024

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Overview

EJBDESK is 6 years old and will not run any Microsoft OS beyond Windows 10. It is also obsolete in other ways, particularly the boot drive, which is a SATA SSD, and a 6th generation Core i5 processor with 4 cores. I am replacing it with a Lenovo S3 tower workstation that I bought through the Intel Retiree purchase plan with a pretty good discount on April 9, 2024.

Hardware

Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tower Workstation. This is a full size tower, so there is room to add stuff

• 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-13500 vPro® Processor
• Memory: 2 x 16 GB DDR5-4400MHz (UDIMM)
• 2 x DataPort to HDMI dongle. My monitors have DataPort inputs, but these dongles are $25 for two, so if I don't use them, they might be handy to have on hand.
• M.2 SSD Gen4 boot drive (1TB)
• Integrated ethernet and graphics (no extra hardware)
• No WiFi, no keyboard, no mouse.
• 3 in 1 card reader for camera cards ($5)
• 2 x Storage kits for installing my 4TB Raid 1 content storage.

Software

• Windows 11 Pro 64

Installation Plan

• Reinstall all software I want to keep
  • Topaz tools
    • Topaz Photo AI
    • Topaz DeNoise AI
    • Topaz Adjust AI
    • Topaz Gigapixel AI
    • Topaz Studio 2
    • Topaz Mask AI
    • Topaz Sharpen AI
    • Topaz JPEG to RAW AI
  • LibreOffice done
  • Messenger (Meta) done
  • Norton 360 done (removed license from old machine)
  • VLC Media Player done
  • EPSON sCAN (saving until scanner is physically attached)
  • TurboTax 2023
  • PyCharm Community done
  • Python 3.12 done
  • Synology Drive Client
  • Adobe Acrobat done
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop (This manages all my adobe prescription stuff) done
  • iDrive (cloud backup) installed, not transferred yet
  • IrfanView done
  • JAlbum
  • Solidworks
  • AVS tools
    • Audio Editor
    • Document Converter
    • Disk Creator
    • Audio Converter
    • Image Converter
    • Media Player
    • Video ReMaker
    • Video Converter
    • Photo Editor
  • Disk Drill (recover deleted files)
  • WinDirStat
  • VEGAS Pro 18.0 done license transferred
  • Elgato Video Capture
  • FireFox
  • Chrome done
  • Google Drive done
  • UltraEdit, UltraCompare
  • Oracle VM Virtualbox
    • And VMs I have (VMs copied)
  • Kindle reader done
  • BitTorrent
  • Better File Rename done, but problem with the license
  • CyberPower UPS software
  • Discord done logged in through qr code on phone
  • FileZilla done -- still need to add ftp server login stuff
  • Git for windows
  • LinuxLive USB Creator
  • Perigee copy
  • PrivateInternetAccess
  • Visual Studio Code
  • WinRar
  • Zoom

• Possible reinstalls (not on day one)
  • Folder Size Explorer
  • Autodesk tools
  • OpenShot Video Editor
  • AOMEI tools
  • Amazon Photos
  • Handbrake
  • NX Studio (raw file software)
  • InkJet printer support stuff
    • But we never use that printer, so maybe we just get rid of it...

File Transfers

There are a lot of files in my user area and on the C drive that need to be copied over. Doing this with an external ssd as a sneakernet. My main content is on the V: drive, a software RAID that I will physically move to the new computer.

• User area files:

Lots of documents going back through history. This needs to be cleaned up, but for now, I am just moving them over.