I agree with you on all points here.
I am not a fan of my IPhone, and always like surfing on my
current laptop. I am not a good user of the IPhone. I prefer
a windows computer over anything apple has to offer. That’s
just me, and if someone likes their mac better, good for
them. I’m going out this afternoon to see what I see. Jim
Hi,
In all fairness, when was the last time you
actually bought anything on a disk? I have blank dvds from 7
years ago that still haven’t been used up. Unless you watch
movies – and in that case, a portable USB dvd drive would be
perfect, and cost $10. That way, when you don’t actually use
it, you’re not carrying that extra half a pound to a pound
constantly.
Phones can’t do everything – if I had to
use my phone every day I’d be missing out on tons. Browsing
the web on an iPhone is horrifically inefficient – having to
use the rotor to find the item I want to jump by, then
actually trying to jump by that item, is done so much quicker
on any modern laptop or desktop computer with a single
keypress. Don’t get me started on apples horrible audio
streams and how audio can get interrupted by the smallest
thing in 2020 or how multiple audio streams still can’t be a
thing. My Lenovo, luckily, still has an applications key, but
I’ve noticed more and more that certain things like websites
are requiring simulated clicks of the mouse (good luck
performing that on any mobile device, too). I really like the
layout of the function keys on this machine too – I hate this
new design where they are all laid out together with no
spacing to separate the various groups.
I don’t think there are any less USB ports
on computers than there were 4 years ago – unless you get one
with all USB C ports. Mine still has 2 USB A ports along with
2 USB C. I have a USB hub which I keep hard drives and things
plugged into, but it’s just a 3 port one and is not externally
powered and I rarely use all 3 ports. My Toshiba from 2013 had
3 USB A ports with only one being 3.0 and it is still going
today. Despite what many people claim, older machines with
solid state drives are still perfectly useable – this has a 3rd
generation core i5 that still speedily does everything one
could ask in an office environment, so the huge core i7’s are
certainly not going to get you any further ahead. In ultra low
voltage scenarios, they’re only at most 10% faster than their
i5 counterparts. The core i9’s that are coming out now are, in
some cases, slower than the i7’s they’re meant to beat. Intel
is really dropping the ball the last year.
Still, when crunch time comes, I’ll take a
computer over a phone any day of the week, any time. A phone
is nice to quickly, forgive the wording, but glance at – but
when I want to get work done, a computer is hard to beat.
I used to use a laptop a lot, but with the advent of an
iphone, the portability isn't of much use to me anymore. I
take mine on vacation, and that's about it. Having fewer usb
ports on a laptop means each one is going to end up getting
more wear. If one finds themselves constantly plugging and
unplugging multiple devices, a cheap hub may be in order. I
think people have defaulted to the laptop as computer
scenario, even though phones have made moving a computer
around something that may be a lot less necessary than it used
to be.
Sad thing is that even some modern desktops don't come with
things like built-in dvd drives. You really have to check the
specs on whatever you plan on buying.
Keyboards have become more and more of an issue. Not only
are things like the application keys going away, but many
desktop keyboards have no key spacing and are horrible. I
bought one of the gaming keyboards, it has all the keys, is
supposedly spill proof, and was the best $60 I have spent in a
long time.
On 1/7/2020 09:35, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
> > A lot of people don’t ever take their laptop
anywhere, but if you do > or even just like to bring it to
different places in your house then > a laptop is probably
a better choice. > > It’s no more difficult or hard to
plug an external keyboard whether > wired or wireless into
a laptop and if you use a Bluetooth one like > the Logitech
K780 then you don’t even have to plug it in, just > connect
it. > > The same goes for speakers, you can easily plug
in external speakers > or, once again, you could use a
Bluetooth headset. > > I do have a laptop at home
because I do occasionally bring it to > trade shows I
attend or when I go on holidays for longer than a week, >
but at home it almost always sits in my office plugged in and
I use a > Logitech K780 and a Logitech H800 headset, both
are Bluetooth and I > can go most places in my house with
them. > > If I didn’t want a laptop from time to time I
could easily have a > mini PC at home, those are my
preference at my business because they > are small,
virtually silent and they do all I need them to do. Of >
course if you want a higher performance one with an I7 CPU,
16Gb of > RAM and a 512Gb SSD they may cost a bit more.
> > I used to have a few of the Intel NUC mini PC’s, but
a few years ago > bought two HP EliteDesk 800 G2, one with
an I5 and one an I7 CPU, > both sixth generation, and by
now I only have 1 Intel NUC left, the > other 3 are all HP
with the latest being the EliteDesk 800G4 with an > 8^th
generation I7 CPU and it’s a great little PC. > > >
> Best regards, > > Sieghard > > > >
*From:* main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io>
*On Behalf Of *Chris > Hill *Sent:* Tuesday, January 7,
2020 7:24 AM *To:* > main@jfw.groups.io
