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The Missus’ Computer Crapped the Bed

Rexedgar

Rexedgar

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She’s been using a 3-4 year old Lenovo “YOGA” with the following specs:

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She likes this model/style. A little research shows Lenovo offering an AMD CPU now. Old unit was Intel I7.

Anyone have opinions on this manufacturer or a similar economic unit. She is not into games or things that need a lot of speed or memory. Surfing, bill-paying and e-mail are pretty much all the needs.
 
Rexedgar said:
She’s been using a 3-4 year old Lenovo “YOGA” with the following specs:

View attachment 67256602

She likes this model/style. A little research shows Lenovo offering an AMD CPU now. Old unit was Intel I7.

Anyone have opinions on this manufacturer or a similar economic unit. She is not into games or things that need a lot of speed or memory. Surfing, bill-paying and e-mail are pretty much all the needs.
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She will NOT notice any difference with an AMD proc.
But I would seriously try to up the RAM to either 12 or 16GB if at all possible.
Windows is a RAM hog, always has been but even more so now.
With an eight gig stick you really only have about 4 GB to work with most times on Win10.
 
Rexedgar said:
She’s been using a 3-4 year old Lenovo “YOGA” with the following specs:

View attachment 67256602

She likes this model/style. A little research shows Lenovo offering an AMD CPU now. Old unit was Intel I7.

Anyone have opinions on this manufacturer or a similar economic unit. She is not into games or things that need a lot of speed or memory. Surfing, bill-paying and e-mail are pretty much all the needs.
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Buy 13-inch MacBook Air - Apple

They last 10 years or more for most users. It will take a week or two to get used to the differences, plenty of help available from user groups. Check one out at an Apple store or one of the other retailers that carry them. Also, check Amazon for better pricing. Small discounts from them and other online retailers. Occasional package deals.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Buy 13-inch MacBook Air - Apple

They last 10 years or more for most users. It will take a week or two to get used to the differences, plenty of help available from user groups. Check one out at an Apple store or one of the other retailers that carry them. Also, check Amazon for better pricing. Small discounts from them and other online retailers. Occasional package deals.
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Thanks, OFG, I’m the Apple guy in the family unit. Momma has medical stuff that is not IOS compatible. I’ve tried to show her the light.....gotta be Microsoft.
 
Rexedgar said:
Thanks, OFG, I’m the Apple guy in the family unit. Momma has medical stuff that is not IOS compatible. I’ve tried to show her the light.....gotta be Microsoft.
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My Cardiologist had the same problem, until his daughter showed him how to use Boot Camp. Now he uses Parallels. Easier and both in separate windows simultaneously. Turned out to be more stable than his Dell which cost him twice as much. He added more RAM to cover the extra needs. Very happy. There are other software alternatives for using MS programs on OSX without installing a Windows layer. All relatively easy to use.

Run Windows or Windows programs on your Mac
 
Rexedgar said:
She’s been using a 3-4 year old Lenovo “YOGA” with the following specs:

View attachment 67256602

She likes this model/style. A little research shows Lenovo offering an AMD CPU now. Old unit was Intel I7.

Anyone have opinions on this manufacturer or a similar economic unit. She is not into games or things that need a lot of speed or memory. Surfing, bill-paying and e-mail are pretty much all the needs.
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Can't go wrong with Lenovo.

I can guarantee you that she's not using all the horses in that i7, so she's not going to notice any difference in any comparable AMD chip.
 
If your lady is anything like most, she probably neglects to be mindful of dust build up on her computer, so I would suggest that you blow out the whole unit every week or two with some compressed air.

Keeping dust from accumulating under the keypad and on the system board can really help extend the life of the computer to many years.
 
Has she considered a Surface Pro?
Expensive but worth it.

I mean, if you're going to talk Apple price premiums, apparently M$ is right up there in expensive territory now, but it's a damn good product.
 
MovingPictures said:
If your lady is anything like most, she probably neglects to be mindful of dust build up on her computer, so I would suggest that you blow out the whole unit every week or two with some compressed air.

Keeping dust from accumulating under the keypad and on the system board can really help extend the life of the computer to many years.
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Well if I am not mistaken the Mac Air is fanless, am I wrong on this? (Same with M$ Surface)
Solid state drive and fanless and for a portable that would be the way to go for everyone except a power user if you're looking to buy anything in 2019.
Mechanical HDD and cooling fans are so-o-o-o-o "2000-ish".
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Well if I am not mistaken the Mac Air is fanless, am I wrong on this? (Same with M$ Surface)
Solid state drive and fanless and for a portable that would be the way to go for everyone except a power user if you're looking to buy anything in 2019.
Mechanical HDD and cooling fans are so-o-o-o-o "2000-ish".
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I've never owned a Mac, but I believe so.

Most of the Chromebooks are like that.
 
I understand the limitations of having to run Microsoft software, but there are alternatives and work-arounds. Personally, I'll never buy another PC or laptop. I'm on my PC now (still running Windows 7 Ultimate), but when it dies I'll convert everything over to my Chromebook permanently. I love the battery life, the portability, it's lightweight and it does everything I need to do. Ever since they went to ChromeOS, it operates much more like a laptop in terms of functionality.
 
MovingPictures said:
I've never owned a Mac, but I believe so.

Most of the Chromebooks are like that.
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You might even consider one of those but they are also a bit on the smallish side and even maybe a bit "weak".
Of course, the ideal unit is still elusive for the casual user because I can describe it, but it doesn't exist.

All the features of the base model Surface Pro only with an HDMI out to connect to a larger display.
Add a nice SD card expansion slot and I would be very tempted to trade up to it.

But I still spend about 85% of my time sitting in front of "the big iron" so maybe not worth it for me.
 
RedAkston said:
I understand the limitations of having to run Microsoft software, but there are alternatives and work-arounds. Personally, I'll never buy another PC or laptop. I'm on my PC now (still running Windows 7 Ultimate), but when it dies I'll convert everything over to my Chromebook permanently. I love the battery life, the portability, it's lightweight and it does everything I need to do. Ever since they went to ChromeOS, it operates much more like a laptop in terms of functionality.
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I like Microsoft, but there is a large landscape of alternatives to there's and other mainstream software for Linux.

Microsoft Office = LibreOffice and Google Docs.
Outlook = Gmail.
Microsoft Paint/Adobe Photoshop = Gimp.
Quickbooks = HomeBank.
Microsoft Media Center = Plex and JellyFin.
 
MovingPictures said:
I like Microsoft, but there is a large landscape of alternatives to there's and other mainstream software for Linux.

Microsoft Office = LibreOffice and Google Docs.
Outlook = Gmail.
Microsoft Paint/Adobe Photoshop = Gimp.
Quickbooks = HomeBank.
Microsoft Media Center = Plex and JellyFin.
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Love GIMP.
I still have Adobe CS5 Master Collection but I absolutely refuse to transition to their subscription model hence I will never use CS6. That's part of the reason I love GIMP.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Love GIMP.
I still have Adobe CS5 Master Collection but I absolutely refuse to transition to their subscription model hence I will never use CS6. That's part of the reason I love GIMP.
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I always have liked Illustrator and Firework (when it was around), but now GIMP is all I need, for what little I'll do.
 
MovingPictures said:
I like Microsoft, but there is a large landscape of alternatives to there's and other mainstream software for Linux.

Microsoft Office = LibreOffice and Google Docs.
Outlook = Gmail.
Microsoft Paint/Adobe Photoshop = Gimp.
Quickbooks = HomeBank.
Microsoft Media Center = Plex and JellyFin.
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*theirs*

Something in the water today. :lol:
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Well if I am not mistaken the Mac Air is fanless, am I wrong on this? (Same with M$ Surface)
Solid state drive and fanless and for a portable that would be the way to go for everyone except a power user if you're looking to buy anything in 2019.
Mechanical HDD and cooling fans are so-o-o-o-o "2000-ish".
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Conductive cooling. And the surface is more expensive than the air. Most of the high end developers work on high end Apple hardware, then port to windows. Strange until you realize they work through the terminal, straight UNIX, bypassing the OSX shell. There is really no high end unix iron out there anymore. Some ultra expensive SGI custom jobs, and similar, but not much else.

Come summer, I still keep dry ice containers handy, when doing heavy crunching. Sit may air on two of them. Walk away while the programs are doing their tasks. For my SGI I keep one on each side. But that machine is a monster. It can heat my den during the winter months.
 
Rexedgar said:
She’s been using a 3-4 year old Lenovo “YOGA” with the following specs:

View attachment 67256602

She likes this model/style. A little research shows Lenovo offering an AMD CPU now. Old unit was Intel I7.

Anyone have opinions on this manufacturer or a similar economic unit. She is not into games or things that need a lot of speed or memory. Surfing, bill-paying and e-mail are pretty much all the needs.
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I7's are Intel's top end CPU's so it you want similar performance AMD Ryzen's kick butt and are cheaper too. I have a 2700x with 8 cores and 16 threads @ 4.2 Ghz and I love it.
 
RedAkston said:
I understand the limitations of having to run Microsoft software, but there are alternatives and work-arounds. Personally, I'll never buy another PC or laptop. I'm on my PC now (still running Windows 7 Ultimate), but when it dies I'll convert everything over to my Chromebook permanently. I love the battery life, the portability, it's lightweight and it does everything I need to do. Ever since they went to ChromeOS, it operates much more like a laptop in terms of functionality.
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I hope you have no need for privacy.
 
Rexedgar said:
What’s privacy?
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Today, a great question. However one can guard against all intrusions into one's personal life by using the persona online of someone who is dead or fictional, minimize hacking and cracking with the best security protocols. Knowing that Google (Alphabet) mines every bit of data that passes through their systems, I avoid all their products. Where one treads a path, many more can follow. Should someone crack through to the intranet I operate for my family communications, within seconds, their machine is wiped and bricked. They may recover from backups and a clean system install, but they won't come back.
 
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