$8000..... crazy isn't it? I know when I first got into computers and hardware, nothing useful was under $5000. Since I went on my own, I believe that every computer I have ever bought cost less than the one before, and was multitudes more powerful. Factor in inflation, and the difference in price is even more spectacular. Is there anything else you can buy where you could say that?
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Michael Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L <[email protected]> Cc: karentellef <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 30, 2016 10:24 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT - new laptop Hey, I think anything that boots in under 30 seconds is pretty darn fast... My Texas instruments desktop professional, windows 2.1, 640k Ram, 4.77 mhz processor with math co-processor, 20mb harddrive (it's 10mb predecessor was all I would ever need, so the salesman said), with Autocad 1.0 loaded, a screen regen of a huge 450k file took a couple of minutes. I bought that machine new in Nov '83 and I keep copy of invoice in my desk just for perspective (almost $8000.00), so everything is pretty zippy today, by any stretch of the imagination. I am sure most folks would be satisfied with just about any middling equipped laptop that falls toward the top end as far as reliability is concerned. Windows 10, I can't fault at all since "most" apps I use are launched from the taskbar of the desktop. The more I use it, the more the niggling little things that were objectionable disappear in the rearview mirror. On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 12:26:34 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: Admin: feel free to delete if this is not appropriate. My laptop (my only computer) just died, rats. It was a 2012 Toshiba Satellite with windows 8. Boy I am scared to get windows 10. I always bought at Best Buy, but they no longer carry Toshiba, and until now Toshibas have been so reliable for me. They do carry Dell, Lenova, Acer. So my question is, knowing that RBase is my primary concern, am I okay buying windows 10? And comment on brands? Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
