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MS surface vs. tablets
- Thread starter LiNK666
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what has Jian Ghomeshi got to do with computers?
And since BSD and linux are different things, OSX has nothing to do with linux
Not completely true me thinks ... BSD and Linux OS are both based on Unix ( I am sure nerds will correct me with plethora of semantics involved ... LOL). Simply speaking, if there was no Unix, neither one would exist in its current form.
daught
Well-known member
bump...
I could really use a tablet with real windows. I want to run google earth with a bunch of overlays and the garmin software to upload/download/create tracks for my handheld. Other than that it would be good for surfing the web while on the go. $200 is my budget MAX, otherwise I can live without one.
I recently saw a Dell Venue 8 and it seemed pretty cool. Any idea how it would do with the above software?
What about the $99 Hp stream 7? Too little ram I guess.
Any other options?
I could really use a tablet with real windows. I want to run google earth with a bunch of overlays and the garmin software to upload/download/create tracks for my handheld. Other than that it would be good for surfing the web while on the go. $200 is my budget MAX, otherwise I can live without one.
I recently saw a Dell Venue 8 and it seemed pretty cool. Any idea how it would do with the above software?
What about the $99 Hp stream 7? Too little ram I guess.
Any other options?
daught
Well-known member
What does your kid want to do with the laptop? I have a pretty old laptop that I set up with linux that worked pretty well in my com tech days.
Disclaimer: I am as knowledgeable with computers as I am with motorcycle maintenance.
He's 11. Needs it to access Google drive for schoolwork and he needs to download Minecraft that was given to him for his birthday.
He eventually wants to do some YouTube videos of video games and would need to upload from it.
We have another laptop (mine) but it runs Vista which is hit and miss, but works for me. But we seem to be fighting for time on it now.
I tried a Dell Venue 7 for a few hours. Worst POS I have ever had the displeasure of touching. Literally to turn it on, set it up, then reset to factory settings to return it took me over 6 hours. Clicks showed up in the wrong spot, necessary locations in windows 8 were unreachable (ie not formatted properly for screen so close button is off the screen), settings continually reset (it get reading text out loud, I would disable it and 5 minutes later, it would be on again). I paid ~$100 and after the experience I had with it, if someone offered to pay me $10,000 to use it as my primary device for a month, I would turn down the offer. No idea how related the venue 7 and 8 are.
Bought one for my dad. Uses it for social media, etc.
But it originally started with the $30 used laptops. That's more my budget, for an additional machine. Otherwise, I will just keep sharing mine with him.
If I had a spare one I would but the last one I got I just shipped to my broke sister in Vancouver. The guy I gave the one before that to dumped half a beer into it the night I gave it to him so he's probably in line for the next one. Although it still works but doesn't charge, DVD doesn't work, had to take one RAM stick out to get it to boot, and the hard drive is failed now. I can boot a live Linux distro, though! lol
Generally I try to give them out to broke/jobless people "in need". Other than the one I gave my parents recently I've helped out 5 other people since I started here. Usually I suck up the $30 fee unless the person is prone to destroying them and I have to give them more than one.
Only thing I have right now is an old Athlon64 tower my neighbor threw out. 512 mb RAM. Just needed the southbridge heatsink repaired (one of the little clips pulled out of the board, I just used a tiny piece of wire to make a new one) to make it "like new" again. Probably can't run Minecraft (I don't know the system requirements). Found it sitting by our trash bins in the rain. If anyone knows someone "in need" that just needs something capable of surfing, email, low quality YouTube, word processing, etc, let me know and you can have it. Runs a full legit version of XP.
Well I am not broke, nor in need. I have a house and car and a bike. Just sometimes it does get a little tight making ends meet.
I think it's awesome that you help people out like that. Thank you anyway for replying. But if you ever do end up with an extra one, I will give you the $30, plus make a $20 donation in your name to the charity of your choice.
Thread hijack: Got some weird warning on Google chrome last night when my kid went to access google drive. One of those "coputer is virus. Click to repair" (exact spelling). Froze the pc.
Linked to techiebros.com. Anyone seen this or have some advice to get rid of it?
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I think it's awesome that you help people out like that. Thank you anyway for replying. But if you ever do end up with an extra one, I will give you the $30, plus make a $20 donation in your name to the charity of your choice.
Thread hijack: Got some weird warning on Google chrome last night when my kid went to access google drive. One of those "coputer is virus. Click to repair" (exact spelling). Froze the pc.
Linked to techiebros.com. Anyone seen this or have some advice to get rid of it?
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 625 Windows Phone using Tapatalk
MarcosSantiago
Well-known member
I was at the new Microsoft store at the Eaton Centre.
I spent some pretty interesting 5 minutes in there...
I spent some pretty interesting 5 minutes in there...
housecall.antivirus.com and malwarebytes.org are good tools to use. I see a lot of people that have malicious adware on their systems, particularly if they downloaded some crap from c-net
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