Dell 3000?

[jefboyardee]

I'll post again when I return it...

So far, it's pretty amazing for a <$400 PC. It's a lot of work to get it to replace the accumulated ten years with my HP, but I haven't found a deal-killer yet.

 

[jefboyardee]

Never mind, again. Returned it too. At least the third time I've bought a new PC to replace my ten year old HP and none of them could even boot as fast. And yes, I now assume I just buy them for the thrill of returning them.

 

[davoid]

You should take up tennis

 

[jefboyardee]

Can you imagine that, me returning tennis balls, one at a time, at least once every week?!

 

[Dngrsone]

Better than having the refrigerator guy returning to look at my fridge (but not fix it) once every other month...

 

[jefboyardee]

One year later, a half-price Dell with Win7 Pro caught my wallet. I'll try not to return it.

 

[jefboyardee]

Well, I was all set to return it, true to form. But I went away for a few days and came back to a dead old one. Monsoons got it, I think. So I trashed it, thrashed and smashed the new one I was about to return, wound up with it having Win7 Home 32bit, just like the recently deceased one. That's probably the way I wanted it anyway. The interesting part was with about three hundred Windows updates, not one of them even mentioned Windows 10!

 

[jefboyardee]

This has to be the last chapter. I had kept the HP monitor that came with the now-trashed desktop computer. It was an old-style 1280x1024, to which I was very accustomed. But it, apparently mourning the death of the computer, died just as suddenly.

It was immediately thrown in the trash and replaced by a new baby super-wide from late-night Walmart. I am forced again to accept the present.

 

[jefboyardee]

Just don't like these widescreen monitors, prefer the good old 1280x1024s. Can't see how they were cast aside.

 

[Dngrsone]

Productivity, my friend.

With my wide-screen monitor, I can place two Windows side-by-side and be able to move data between two apps or at least transcribe between the two without having to page back and forth.

Also, for those who have/like sidebar apps, you can have your windowed program to one side and the sidebar is plainly visible on the other.

 

[mikedt]

Don't like wide-screen, 16:9? Turn monitor on its side and use in portrait mode. See all of your document pages then, without scrolling.

I learned that from trying to do documents on a tablet.

 

[Dngrsone]

Don't like wide-screen, 16;9? Turn it on its side and use in portrait mode. See all of your document pages then, without scrolling.

I learned that from trying to do documents on a tablet.

I found that feature on one of my laptops, which was kind of weird, considering the laptop wasn't convertible or anything...

 

[mikedt]

I found that feature on one of my laptops, which was kind of weird, considering the laptop wasn't convertible or anything...

Screen orientation is a standard feature of Windows, and Linux and Mac as well. But yeah, I can see that trying to use a conventional laptop on its side would be awkward. Not without plugging an external keyboard and mouse in.

On a tablet with an orientation sensor, screen is usually the right way up, no matter which way it's held.

 

[jefboyardee]

To make use of the screen's wideness, and to accommodate its heightlessness, I've moved the taskbar to the side and staggered open windows that used to stacked. That works okay, but I think I'll probably buy the first 1280x1024 I trip over.