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Re: Locast adds Minneapolis-St Paul
I just signed up. Found a good use for this. Yesterday we had tornado warnings . Fortunately none touched down in my area. But we went down to the basement and I used locust to follow the TV broadcast. We didn't lose electricity but two blocks away did. If we had, I could use the hotspot to follow the TV weather and anything else.233Views0likes0CommentsRe: Kindle settings
I have a 3, 4'and 5th Gen kindle. I know of no settings for that. It is just automatic. Have you done a 40second reset? That doesn't delete your books. Next would be factory reset. That does delete books. Have you called Amazon? Yesterday was a 1 minute wait.422Views0likes0CommentsRe: looking for a new laptop gps anyone?
First things first. I am wondering why you want a gps with a 15 inch screen? It is easy to find a gps with a 6 inch screen. And yes more memory is necessary, 12 or 16 gb would be great. A SSD of 256 gb would be sufficient and a second internal drive rather than an external drive is more convenient than an external one but either one is mandatory.216Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows 10... From an Apple Guy
Thanks for agreeing with me. Most Macs built before 2012 cannot run the latest OS. That is what, 6 year old computers that can't run the latest OS. Your 2009 computer probably can't run the current OS. PCs that are 10 years old can run Win10. They may be slow but probably not as Win10 is a faster OS on most computers. Win 7 came out in 2009 (almost 10 years) , so the vast majority of PCs had the free update to Win 10. As far as 43 % also running Win 7 still yet, it has always been a slow upgrade for businesses to go to a new OS. They maintain a lot of legacy applications that need to be test out on the new OS before they can upgrade. Just to give you an example of how slow companies can be for upgrades, I will tell you about the company I was with in 1996. Do you remember the date issue for the year 2000? A lot of programs forced the year to be 19xx and had to be changed. It took the company I was at 3 years to update and test and install the one change across the entire platform. Your comparison of 46% Mac users on the current (until now) OS is quite misleading. The vast majority of Mac users are individual not business users. You would think that it would be in the high 80%. The market numbers currently show that Windows (all OSs) at over 88 % while iOS (Mac I guess) is at 8.75 %. My wife still has Win 7 on her computer because like others have posted here, she doesn't want to learn a new OS. This is funny to me as she uses it for one Word document (or Libre) and the rest is Firefox browser things. I put the Icons on the desktop for her so she never sees the OS. She goes back and forth from my computer to hers without having a clue which OS she is using. Basically, just give her an Icon and she is happy. By the way, you say that Mfgs have to pay to put Win 10 on their computers. Who do you think pays to have Ios on your Mac. You do in the inflated price of a Mac.371Views0likes0CommentsRe: Advantage of Apps
One of the major dissadvage of Apps is how large they are. A lot of Apps are 50 to 100 mbytes in size. This becomes important when updating. You need a large data plan or pick and choose which updates you will install until you get to Starbucks etc. I don't have a lot of Apps but one day there were ten updates and well over 500 Mbytes of downloads. I only have one or two programs on my PC that are over 50 mbytes. Just looked at the updates for today, counted over 750 mbytes, that is 3/4 of a gigabyte. Good thing I am on WiFi.397Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows 10... From an Apple Guy
Two points. MS did and still does have a program to determine if your computer can run Win 10. It is great in the that you don't have to remember if you are running hopscotch or purple or ice cream whatever. I guess you aren't old enough to remember that Win10 was free when it was released and is free on any new PC.370Views0likes0Comments
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