Posted on 04/20/2018 11:52:18 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
For internet brousing I can see tablets doing that. My wife’s laptop is an acer where you can fold the screen fully back and it is a touch screen. i.e. it is both pad and laptop.
I still use a desktop. And a smart phone.
You should ping other freepers when you talk about them. You should tell him now. I didn’t us his ID so I an excused.
I have 2 Lenovos as well. One is 2008, with W7 and the only time it “died” was the issue was a faulty hard drive. Replaced in 2016 and never had a problem afterwards.
The second is also the Thinkpad Pro bought in 2012, switched from win 8 to Win 10 (I hate both windows os but what the hell) and its been great. Other than my Toshiba laptop which is my favorite, they’ve been alright...
I’m in your camp. Had a 2011 MBP that went around the world with me sans a glitch.
The little Touch Strip was the last nail in the coffin for the MBP. MacOS will never catch up either. Now Apple is playing the Lock-In game and customers are being played.
I still use a desktop ... but I also still use my flip-phone; that's as smart as I want my phone to be. It can't take pictures and won't receive or send texts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo
Don’t buy Lenovo!
Heh. I use the text feature quite a bit. Also, my family is scattered all over the country. We use our smart phones for video calls. It’s awesome with the grand kids several states away.
Now back to the Coke vs Pepsi, Ford vs Chevy, Sig vs Glock, Harley vs Triumph pissing matches.
Yes, by all means buy Lenovo!!
Emperor Xi thanks you very much!!
Sorry, but I prefer not to have the Chinese Communist Party able to install spyware directly on to my motherboards...
I am looking at the Macbook Pro line and suspect that I'll buy a refurb 2015 i7. Lots of bang for the buck but ... why can't Apple come out with better hardware?
I listen to a couple of Apple oriented podcasts and am starting to understand their frustration with delicate keyboards, the lack of ports and 4K only on external monitors. Not one of my family has bought a 2017 Macbook Pro.
Not that the Apple OS software has been without flaw. High Sierra and the new Apple file system needed more testing before release.
So if I can retrain myself on Linux, that may just do until Apple delivers a hardware upgrade that makes it worth spending the $$$ needed to get a top flight Macbook Pro.
That’s what people get for purchasing PCs and laptops with pre-installed software and not changing it. Every computer that I have purchased (when I didn’t build it myself) has always been scrubbed clean, then had its OS re-installed with the options I want and the drivers I need. It helps delay the software bloat issues for quite some time.
Touch screens are an unmitigated disaster for any work machine other than those used by physicians and meter-readers.
I use both Macs and Pc's. I have a Mac mini as my primary desktop. I have a Dell 2 in 1 laptop I use for travel and trying to stay current with Windows 10. I hardly ever use the touch screen on the Dell laptop. It comes in handy every once in awhile, but then you have to clean the screen after getting finger prints all over it..
Meh. Get Linux for free - I’d go with Mint or Xubuntu - and let the Win v. Apple woes behind.
I’m with you on Lenovo, but I’m a Dell guy and their XPS laptops are the bomb. Pricey but excellent. Apple has two problems, MacOS, and inflexibility. Apple has few configurations because MacOS is so outdated. For example, a single menu at the top of the screen swapped out for each app. That’s stone aged shit.
I just turned mine off. More trouble than it’s worth.
In addition...for me anyway, a touch screen is like a dog’s Dew Claw, just cut the damn thing off.
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