Follow up: I Need a New Laptop. Big One. Your Recommendations and Pans?

chickensoup | 04.03.19 | chickensoup

[oh8eleven]

I hold on to my Office 2003 CDs like Grim Death.
LOL ... I'm still using Word and Excel ... 2001.
I also still use Photoshop 7 - 2005 vintage.
I try the latest software versions when they come out, but they're not just worth the money - lot's of money. The hell with them.

[srmanuel]

I guarantee you, not 1% of the posters know what a Digital PDP 1100 is, especially from 1981......I started with Burroughs in 1981 supported the B1000 and later A-series Mainframes, carried a 65mb disk pack around in my car with all the software I need to support someone, if I need anything else I had Mag tapes....Digital aka DEC as I knew it and Burroughs along with a whole bunch of others don’t exist anymore...

[ShadowAce]

I notice a god-forsaken “ribbon” menu in one of the word processing illustrations.

Try it anyway. The ribbon interface can be disabled. I don't use it.

It's free. It's not gonna cost you anything.

[FranklinsTower]

I used to do Windows for 20+ years, got tired of all the crashing and walking on eggshells nuances.

Went to Mac and never looked back. Life is much easier now.

[OKSooner]

Maybe that last machine that Gateway tried, right before they went out of business?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

DEC developed the RS2732 board for P2P “phone-line” transmissions. I sent my first file from Casper WY to SLC UT around September of 1983.

It was ON!

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

If you just want "fast", but you're not doing heavy graphics, then you want three things: A fast processor, lots of high-end RAM, and one or two large solid-state drives. If you were doing high-end graphics or intense gaming (not solitaire) you'd also need a high-end graphics card or two.

The SSD (solid-state drive) may be the real key to being fast if you aren't using memory-intense applications. The speed boost over traditional hard drives is amazing. Prices have come down a lot, so you're in luck.

Let me look and I'll get back to you. Do you have a brand preference?

[Openurmind]

I like my Asus too. 10 years old and still kicking without one problem except the battery which died about 5 years ago, normal life span. Just have to keep it plugged in. lol

[KYGrandma]

Liked my HP until I dropped it. Too much for repairs. Guess I will go back to Dell. Was the first sign of illness; heart and liver.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’m pretty sure I could resurrect a copy of my “Yellow File Cabinet” DOS from some old 3.5 floppies I have in the basement.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I’m still using Word and Excel ... 2001.”

Ha! Good for you. When I’m using my Word, Excel, and Access 2003, I’m missing my DOS WordPerfect, Lotus, and Paradox. (P.S., I hate Bill Gates and his “bundling” of apps on new PCs back in “the day” when we were forced to use MS apps.)

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

There's "fast", and then there's fast. High end graphics cards (which you don't need) can add $1000 or more. Easily, if you get a quad set-up.

[vikingd00d]

>>Ooh! Double-sided! Aren’t you lucky.

That’s only a single-sided floppy. You have to notch out the other side (near the label) with a hole punch, without actually notching the disk itself, to make it double sided. :)

[Hyman Roth]

Lloyd Braun!!!!!!!!!! Serenity Now

[Bulwyf]

I don’t know how sweet I am, but I put sugar in my coffee to try to make up for it at least heh.

[Hootowl99]

Alienware should tick all your must have boxes quite nicely. Pay no attention to the shrinking size of your wallet.

[kalee]

My Christmas Dell has been a disaster. In the last two days I have spent over 4 hours and 45 minutes on the phone with their premium tech support in India, which left my too slow running computer, not running at all.

[oh8eleven]

some old 3.5 floppies I have in the basement.
Not three weeks ago, I trashed three dozen old cables of all kinds (I swore I'd need that SCSI someday), plus a few 3.5 drives.
    The 5.25 drives I trashed a year ago.
Hey, you never know :)

[redhead]

Install MOZILLA immediately...

[GOPJ]

Nice site... thanks