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OT. Computer Purchase Advice
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OT. Computer Purchase Advice
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:06:54 -0700, AJL wrote:
On 12/16/2020 6:58 PM, Clare Snyder wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:52:41 -0500, wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:36:53 -0800 (PST), trader_4 wrote: On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 2:29:42 PM UTC-5, wrote: It is nice to have discussions like this to keep abreast of what is going on in the computer world as one year is like a dog year and a 5 year old computer is middle aged in computer years. " bleeding edge " technology... as in bleeding your wallet .. :-) My present computer serves me just fine - thank you .. 12 year old Vista era Thinkpad running Win 8 Pro. I've had it ~ 3 years it cost me $ 140. plus $ 40. for a battery. I recently added a memory stick to get up to 6 gigs, and an SSD. It does zoom and streaming .. I can't figure out what am I missing ? John T. What are you using for a web browser? I have laptop on XP and there are no browser's left today that I could find, except for Mypal, which is a Firefox derivative. Antivirus not many choice left either. That's a big problem, dwindling software choices. And I'm not doing anything that requires being able to play videos, having up to date Adobe Flash Player, etc. FireFox 68.8.0 esr upgraded from a very old version earlier this year - seems OK so far - I do need to use Chrome for viewing on Imgur - haven't looked into why - I don't get any error messages just a blank dark Imgur page .. I have an idle P4 tower that is on Xp Pro - I've used it once this year just as a test - it still does the basics. John T. I'm running Firefox 83.0 64 bit and the latest version of Edge. Thats as close to Chrome as I want to get. I still use IE11 too. Bought a new Windows laptop last week and of course it had Edge installed. But I was surprised to find that it also had IE11 installed (though it was hidden down in the Windows Accessories folder). So when I fired IE11 up guess what the very first screen said. That I should should switch to Edge of course. That's normal. IE doesn't get removed when you agree to install Edge. It just gets demoted to where it's less visible. If you prefer, you can bring it back to front and center by pinning it to your taskbar and/or start menu. It's IE though, complete with its bad reputation, so I don't suppose you'll do that. |
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