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2017-02-26 at 8:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by greenplastic How about to not pay $100 to have windows pop up every 10 minutes trying to get you to update? or for free analogues of microsoft office? or not have to deal patronizing restrictions like warning you that you downloaded a program from the internet?
In order:
- Doesn't happen
- Free office software is so far behind MS Office it's not even funny. It's not an alternative. It's a compromise.
- UAC is a good thing, wtf are you even babbling about?
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2017-02-26 at 8:10 PM UTCdownload never10
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2017-02-26 at 8:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by Zanick How do you get one with no OS loaded?
Not sure, you can just reinstall on top of what comes loaded. I actually think chromeOS is kinda cool, it doesn't do everything so setting up crouton and being able to switch over to a debian or ubuntu is important but it's a lot faster than, say, chromiminium on top of ubuntu. It doesn't take up a lot of space so I just left it and found myself using it a lot.
Originally posted by Captain Falcon And no, Chromebooks won't be able to handle TOO many tasks too well. If there's a way to get Firefox then maybe but most Chromebooks come with low ram and thus your performance can fuck if you do too much.
I'm not sure that's true, if you go up in price a little you can find chromebooks with 8+ GB ram, plus they all ship with SSDs so you can page really fast. Browsers are well optimized to the hierarchical memory model because their UI (coordinated tabs with guaranteed mutual non-visibility) is a good fit. -
2017-02-26 at 9:11 PM UTC^Tru, I have a cheapie old gen Chromebook and stutters with too many tabs and it's got 4GB RAM. 8GB will probably be enough.
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2017-03-01 at 12:48 AM UTC?
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2017-03-01 at 1:51 AM UTCyeah, touchscreen laptops are ace even if you don't plan on using the touchscreen. they're a lot tougher than standard screens; the only downside is they're not available in matt finish, only glossy. there's not even really a significant price difference anymore considering how common they are
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2017-03-01 at 2:47 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra in what sense?
what can it not do, aside from that cloud integration/collaboration garbage?
Too many ways to mention, since each individual software has numerous advantages over each common free analogue.
One example, Libre/OpenOffice Writer will almost always fuck up text formatting and structure when copying in pasting, somehow MSWord simply does not have that issue.
Similarly, making presentations in Impress is genuinely a giant ball ache in general compared to PowerPoint. As just one point, look at using templates; MSOffice has a clean, integrated system for using templates, getting new templates, and working with templates. If I load up a new presentation template, I can insert a new slide of any kind from within that template, anywhere within the order of my existing slides, and edit the way the look and are laid out as I desire. On the other hand, with L/OOffice Impress, you download a gay template file and open it, and it has all the different slide designs in an example document. Then you copy and paste each desired slide style as you need them. Good luck editing them without breaking something. And it goes on.
The spreadsheet softwares are the biggest one, and Excel absolutely curbstomps O/LOffice Calc in every single way possible. Not only is it more stable and faster in general, the ability to drag select, clone, move etc cells relative to one another works flawlessly and intuitively in Excel whereas you have to perform tech gymnastics to make Calc behave. -
2017-03-01 at 2:58 AM UTC1 bar or 2 bar lappy
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2017-03-01 at 9:56 AM UTC
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2017-03-06 at 2:37 AM UTCTouch screen is nice but it kills the battery fast. But do you actually need a battery that lasts more than three hours?
Do you need a backlit keyboard? Do you need a disk drive? How many usb ports do you need?
HP seems like a good brand to me. Not fancy but not cheap. Similar to Honda. Just basic.
I wouldn't consider the OS to much, you can always run a virtual machine of another OS(unless you're trying to run Mac OS on a machine with an AMD processor, in which you have to spoof your processor or something).
I wouldn't get a laptop with a nice graphics card if your not into gaming, simply because the money could be spent elsewhere.
Try to get one that can at least be upgraded to 16GB of RAM, but this depends on what you're doing.
What size are you looking for? 13"...15"...17"?
Do you actually need something that is slim and strong, or is it generally going to sit on a desktop and rarely move? -
2017-03-06 at 2:59 AM UTC
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2017-03-18 at 8:13 AM UTCSold chromebooks among other things for a while, cheap as dirt, but doesn't play nice with Windows or really anything mainstream. Looking to do basic work and watch open? This'll do ya
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2017-03-18 at 7:18 PM UTCCan they make a smartphone that fits in a wallet and lasts 3 days battery lyfe
