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Post by petea on May 14, 2021 14:58:59 GMT
Hmm, I've got a knackered old Acer laptop and a can of silver paint somewhere. Er, Mike, I might have something that is just perfect for you...
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Post by MikeMusic on May 14, 2021 15:07:25 GMT
I already have a Chrome Box ! <check> Ah no buttons
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Post by petea on May 14, 2021 15:47:41 GMT
Damn!!
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Post by julesd68 on May 14, 2021 23:36:01 GMT
So, are you buying a Chromebook, Mike? LOL, no I reckon he's after a MacBook
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Post by Slinger on Aug 12, 2023 12:08:31 GMT
The same question that I asked in the original post...
I (still) wouldn't be without mine.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 12, 2023 13:27:33 GMT
Sorry, Paul, but I wouldn't be with one.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 12, 2023 13:32:44 GMT
Sorry, Paul, but I wouldn't be with one. Apart from being in a long and deeply spiritual (if a bit misguided) love affair with Micro$oft, would you care to elaborate?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 12, 2023 18:01:17 GMT
Apart from being in a long and deeply spiritual (if a bit misguided) love affair with Micro$oft, would you care to elaborate? I'm just pragmatic about it. I work with MS products up to and including Azure every single day. I respect them for having survived and recovered from the awful Steve Ballmer days. Their 365 eco-system is the best by some margin. I like Windows as an OS but I also like Android, which is essentially a Linux-based GUI. The other big vendors have far more problematic eco-systems, Google for instance create and discard apps far too frequently to give any impression of stability while iOS/iPadOS/MacOS is frankly a bit of a half-integrated mess with a non-universal cloud system, too.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 12, 2023 18:21:24 GMT
Apart from being in a long and deeply spiritual (if a bit misguided) love affair with Micro$oft, would you care to elaborate? I'm just pragmatic about it. I work with MS products up to and including Azure every single day. I respect them for having survived and recovered from the awful Steve Ballmer days. Their 365 eco-system is the best by some margin. I like Windows as an OS but I also like Android, which is essentially a Linux-based GUI. The other big vendors have far more problematic eco-systems, Google for instance create and discard apps far too frequently to give any impression of stability while iOS/iPadOS/MacOS is frankly a bit of a half-integrated mess with a non-universal cloud system, too. Yes, but Chromebooks? Bearing in mind that modern Chromebooks can run many Android apps natively, I don't see the downside.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 12, 2023 18:25:23 GMT
I'm not convinced, Paul. It's why I quoted Google, they are the least stable of the big developers. Chromebooks are entirely dependent on Google continuing to support them and I can see them just cancelling at some future point if they lose faith in the concept.
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Post by Tim on Aug 12, 2023 19:45:26 GMT
The same question that I asked in the original post... I (still) wouldn't be without mine. If I needed one I would buy one Slinger, I definitely wouldn't use a Windows laptop again, but don't really have a use for one. Happy with my android tablet and desktop Linux PC. I'm content and very comfortable using Linux now and doubt I would ever go back to Windows for my daily driver. I do still have a bare-bones Windows 10 install gaming PC, but think I might be retiring that soon as I'm not using it much. My current mindset is if it won't play nicely with Linux I'll do without it.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 12, 2023 21:09:28 GMT
As well as a Windoze desktop & laptop, I've got the Chromebook, Android tablet(s) and phone, an iPad, and an iPad Mini, all of which are used for different things. Oh, and a Fire tablet I use as my e-Reader. And a Nook, which has been more-or-less retired now.
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Post by Tim on Aug 13, 2023 14:26:42 GMT
Crikey Paul . . . that's just about every base covered I'd say!
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Post by MartinT on Aug 13, 2023 14:36:22 GMT
My second choice machine for real work would be my Android tablet. Excellent for Office with a keyboard and a highly productive device for mobile use. It vies with my work Surface, being better in some ways (like battery life) and not quite as good in others (like server maintenance).
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