cleo43 wrote:
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, you can store files on a USB HDD, if you shun the 100G cloud drive from Google.
Well yes you can, but the 500 Gig HD best price at the time was 350 bucks in a box with no supporting electonics, You'd need to add a shell putting it up to around 400 bucks.
I got the Tosh computer complete with the 500 Gigs and Windows 8.1 for only 250, thats 100 LESS than the hd by itself.. So how much did the the computer cost? Well, basically it was free.. Since I can not use ALL of that 500 Gigs for storage.
And of the apps on it.. I paid for one.. The Firewall, Anti-virus, all the programs I run save the ones that came with the computer and Stardock's Modern Mix (About five bucks as I recall) which fixes what Microsoft broke.... All free. FOR LIFE.
I could blow doze away and slap Linux down but.....
1: Some of the software I run is not linux compliant and
2: Though I'm comfortable navigating through a linux environment I do not really know it all that well.
If all I needed was Storage+Internet access.. A ChromeBook might just be the answer.. But for assorted reasons I trust Google less than Microsoft... Far less.. Cause Google is .. well, a virus.
