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
- Messenger (Meta)
- Norton 360
- VLC Media Player
- EPSON sCAN
- TurboTax 2023
- PyCharm Community
- Python 3
- Synology Drive Client
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop (This manages all my adobe prescription stuff)
- iDrive (cloud backup)
- IrfanView
- 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
- Elgato Video Capture
- FireFox
- Chrome
- Google Drive
- UltraEdit, UltraCompare
- Oracle VM Virtualbox
- And VMs I have
- Kindle reader
- BitTorrent
- Better File Rename
- CyberPower UPS software
- Discord
- FileZilla
- Git for windows
- LinuxLive USB Creator
- Perigee copy
- PrivateInternetAccess
- Visual Studio Code
- WinRar
- Zoom
- Topaz tools
- 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...
