Karen, Just about any peripheral software and/or driver you need you can download from the manufacturer’s web site and by-pass the CD Drive. I hardly ever use CD/DVD drives anymore. At $30 per Terabyte, it is cheaper to buy external drives than CDs. Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 From: karentellef via RBASE-L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2016 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT - new laptop Oh, and for everyone who so nicely responded to my questions about this topic... my new Dell laptop arrived a couple days ago and I'm happily putting it together. It came with Win 10 Pro, with free Microsoft Office (since I will have to get the new version anyway, I've been using it for a few years on my Wrigley-provided laptop and I don't like the new version), 8GB, 500GB (I think I can get away without 1TB). It did come with an SATA drive, no SSD. But for $550, I couldn't pass up the deal.
However, one gotcha. I had read that in the zeal to make laptops smaller and lighter they are excluding CD drives. Ooops, forgot about that. My printer wants the CD, so I'm going to borrow a friend's external CD drive to make the install easy. I've been able to make the same little tweaks that I did in windows 8 to make windows 10 work the way I want it to. The setup for windows 10 was frankly SCAREY. All the "default" options to do things like "assign an Advertising ID to enhance your shopping experience when on the internet", things like that... I turned every single option off (there were like 10 of them) except one, the GPS enabling so that "find my device" would work if it's lost or stolen. I might even turn that off if wifi hot spots start annoying me. Every option was geared towards tracking what you do on the internet, so I can understand why the computer would slow down over time as it accumulates your history. 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. -- 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.
