Posted on 04/08/2015 11:50:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Question about Laptop Purchase Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA??
I am again buying a computer.
The VAIO with Win7 is dying after many years of faithful service.
I have some Acers in sight but cannot decide between the Win8.1 with 1TB SATA vs Beloved Win7 No SATA but instead a regular hard drive.
I just word-process and surf and store pics. Occasionally Skype.
I have Win8 on my teeny computer and I cannot say I particularly like it, some people say I can turn the 8 into a 7 look and feel. But is it really 7? Win7 can turn off cookies and do some things 8 cannot do.
Your input? Please?
As far as I know. Everything is SATA now, whether solid state or disk.
where do I find that information?
Thank you, I just learned something new.
Describe for me how your current laptop is dying. What does it do to make you think it is dying?
You mean the amount of disk memory you are using? There are a couple of ways, but one way is to go to windows explorer, right click on your local disk (C drive) and look under properties.
The keyboard no longer works and I have one plugged in.
The tech man at stapes said the keyboard was not fixable because it is somehow connected to the mother board, also the battery died long time ago, the charger is electrically taped together in a couple of spots and the place I stick the chager into the computer is loose.
So I was going to leave this computer at the office for word processing and get a new one.
My C drive has 203GB of 296 free.
Eventually the charger will fail and you will be out of luck.
I use a desktop at home and work because they last forever and are faster. I have two old ragtag laptops that I use to remote into the desktop. One laptop was my sister’s which had been virused to the hilt. I wiped it and put Linux on it. I surf the web and read email only with it. Linux makes it virus-proof for the most part. If I need anything else, I remote to the desktop.
So a Win7 64bit 2.4Gh 6GBDDR3 500GB Hard drive that has DDR3 SDRAM Intel Corei3 should do it?
So you wouldn’t even fill up half of a 500Gb drive based on your current usage.
AppyPappy I understand what you said, but I do not grok the how. And I am ok with that.
Actually am thinking of putting a desktop at the office in a bit.
Now that you put it that way, it makes which computer to buy truly obvious. Thank you.
Hi Appy.
I was going to do the same thing instead of putting money into a top end laptop.
I found a program called teamviewer and it looks like it will do the trick?
Do you have a better suggestion? What kind of lag time can I expect? Where are the bottlenecks?
Thanks.
Given your skills and habits, get the cheap one.
SATA isn’t an advantage or disadvantage unless you are a gamer and these days we are on pure silicon.
Buy a refurbished business computer from the link below. I need one back during Christmas, the one they sent looked like new with a new battery, no scratches and the printing on the keyboard was like new
Save some money
And then there are serial attached SCSI drives SAS, but I believe the poster means flash storage vs SATA. Go flash (solid state) if available.
I’ve had my Toshiba apart several times to clean the cooling fan. What is the make and model of your laptop, I can look for info and go from there about the keyboard removal, on this one it takes about 30 seconds to remove.
That would be a nice replacement based on what you’ve said so far. It kind of depends on whether or not you would make changes in what you store if you were to get a much larger drive. Users who go for 1Tb drives store a lot of video files for example. Or maybe they want to partition a 1 Tb into separate drives for different purposes.
I think you just want to make this as painless as possible. Since you already are comfortable with Win 7 and the drive is larger than what you have now, it would be a good upgrade for you. It is the way I would go. If you went with the Win 8.1 system, you would have a significant learning curve to climb, plus you would be buying a larger drive than you really need. None of that is really bad, but you just have to be prepared to make adjustments with that choice.
You use The Windows Desktop app(usually under Accessories) to “take over” the desktop after previously checking that the desktop allows Remote Desktop. It’s a lot easier than trying to remember what is where.
Laptops tend to take a beating so I don’t invest much in them. Plus I never put a laptop in my lap. It’s always on a table/desk.
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