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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> :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1413755-1218170262.jpeg.jpg) 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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Post by Slinger on Nov 10, 2024 23:29:49 GMT
I've just ordered a replacement for my old Acer CB315-2H Chromebook. I bought it three-and-a-half years ago, and it was actually released in April 2019. The new one - an Acer Chromebook 515 15.6" - is of 2023 vintage, October 8th to be precise.
Although I've stuck with Acer, I've switched from an AMD chip to a Dual Core 11th gen Intel Core i3 processor, doubled the amount of ram from 4Gb to 8Gb and the SSD is a 128Gb model, as opposed to a whole 32Gb of storage on the old 315. It's IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax compliant, and has Bluetooth 5.
More plusses, the new boy has a proper numeric keypad, and the display is 60 Hz, 1920 x 1080, as opposed to the old one's 1366 x 768. It's also got a fingerprint reader, and (hoorah) a backlit keyboard.
All that (and more) for £169.99, which is exactly a tenner less than I paid for the 315 three-and-a-half years ago. (The list price, which nobody ever pays, is £399.00 fwiw).
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 11, 2024 9:37:50 GMT
I can break it  |
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Post by Slinger on Nov 11, 2024 14:31:32 GMT
I can break it Was there ever a doubt? |
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Post by Slinger on Nov 13, 2024 19:25:01 GMT
After a couple of days I'm happy with my upgrade. It's definitely faster, and I can see the improvement in the display. The only odd thing is that updates, (Chrome OS updates requently) both yesterday and today, appear to be slower. They're still a heck of a lot faster than Micro$haft though. |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2024 21:01:46 GMT
They're still a heck of a lot faster than Micro$haft though. Winodws 11 24H2 updates are now faster. When running "winget upgrade" which update is consistently the slowest to finish? Chrome. |
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Post by Slinger on Nov 13, 2024 21:19:39 GMT
They're still a heck of a lot faster than Micro$haft though. Winodws 11 24H2 updates are now faster. When running "winget upgrade" which update is consistently the slowest to finish? Chrome. " winget upgrade"? I was not familiar, but I Googled it. I was talking about Chrome updating the OS, and the only process involved is clicking on an icon at the bottom of the screen which indicates that there is an update waiting, and that restarts the machine, which causes the update to be applied. Then I simply log back in. When I said that was taking longer I meant probably 25 seconds, instead of 20 or thereabouts. If you can update the Windows OS in 25 seconds or so, I'll be mightily impressed, but obviously I don't run W11 so maybe you can. |
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