I have decided to start this thread for discussing technical issues that come up rather than messing up the other threads.
I guess the first issue seems to be pasting Word text into posting boxes.
Recently we have had three threads lockup up as a result of posts involving Word text.
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Mary GK: do you still need to save any files from your old machine?
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Doing my bit for Open Source, here's a user test conducted by Linux Format magazine comparing Windows 8 and a new version of Ubuntu Linux. Interesting results....
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-vs-windows-8
ChloeB said: LOL that is megabucks to me Mary! :) At least you have two laptops to keep you going until the PC arrives. I take it the all-in-one has a touch screen too?
LOL that is megabucks to me Mary! :)
At least you have two laptops to keep you going until the PC arrives.
I take it the all-in-one has a touch screen too?
Yes Chloe HD 3D touch screen, it also plays BlueRay discs, and can change to HDTV.
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Does it make the dinner too??? LOL
We got a new one just before Christmas, it is Dell, we have always found them very reliable. Can't believe the speed of it. Our old one was soooooo slow!
Unknown said: Mary GK: do you still need to save any files from your old machine?
Thank You Robert, there may be a few have slipped through that were not backed up but nothing important, everything else I had backed up, even my emails which I thought I had lost, but got the computer going enough to let me make a backup of my emails and address book and email account, which I have imported to a little Netbook I have that runs Outlook Express. I guess a lot of people do not think to backup emails or their address book, I often thought about it but thought it was too difficult to do, so never did it, but when faced with the thought of losing all the information held within my emails I certainly made sure I knew how to do it then LOL.... so when the computer was just limping along that was when I made a backup.
Unknown said:Chloe I think we prefer buying from somewhere that we know we will get good service, and have been dealing with for years now. So we went in today and ordered the PC, it depends on what you call megabucks LOL.... £1700 which I think is OK for what we are getting and when we had our very first home computer built way back in 1999/2000 it cost over £2000 at that time, so cannot complain about what we pay now for things.
Ah I spent £2,000 on my first PC in Fenruary 1989. It was 8MHz which I could boost to 12 MHz. I had 1MB of RAM of which only 640K was usuable normally. And the hard disk? I went for the BIG ONE all of 40 MB. I had both 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppies.
Things like CD Roms, USBs and internet connections were unknown to me.
Yet I was showing anyone who was interested how great my PC was.
I know Tiger, we keep complaining about the cost of things today, but when you compare the costs of of computers back then to the spec that you get today and cost, £2000 was a lot of money back around 1999/2000 but in 1989 it was really megabucks LOL..... I worked in a Computer Room in the early 80's and the Disk Drives were in a cabinet about 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide, and the discs were 75 mgb, and they were huge, it was a Wang Computer system, have you heard of them LOL.....
Tiger knows what I am like as regards computers Mary. I may not pay out huge amounts on one machine but I do have a good variety of them :) Bought over a period of time of course :)
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Chloe a girl cannot have too many of anything LOL..... its nice not to be relying solely on one computer isnt it, I can say I like any gadgets whether I need them or not LOL.... Must say Windows 8 looks a different beast altogether, but at least OH is managing to flick between the computer looking like windows7 and then back to Windows8 again, its going to take an awful lot of learning I think.