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Re: New desktop computer?
bighatnohorse wrote: strollin wrote: bighatnohorse wrote: ... I now wish that I had upgraded to Win 10 on the one machine that still uses Win 7 Pro. ... There's nothing stopping you from upgrading that Win 7 Pro machine to Win 10 Pro. Download this from MS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 That's a bit misleading. The free upgrade period has long past. The upgrade is available for purchase. Budget doesn't "stop" me but it is a hurdle - for the money, I'd rather upgrade the machine should a bigger, faster better machine comes out. Not true at all. The only thing about the free upgrade period that MS has ended is the big push on their part for people to upgrade. Download the Media Creation Tool and try it if you don't believe me. No purchase necessary unless you are installing on a machine with no prior OS, or upgrading from an OS prior to Win 7.720Views0likes0Comments- 722Views0likes0Comments
Re: New desktop computer?
bighatnohorse wrote: ... I now wish that I had upgraded to Win 10 on the one machine that still uses Win 7 Pro. ... There's nothing stopping you from upgrading that Win 7 Pro machine to Win 10 Pro. Download this from MS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10722Views0likes0CommentsRe: New desktop computer?
Bumpyroad wrote: everything gets plugged into the USB hub. please explain the functional difference other than mega $$$. then one plugged into computer. bumpy Unless you have a USB connected monitor, you'll need to connect your external monitor to the laptop separately. Unless you use an ethernet to USB adapter, you'll need to plug your ethernet cable in separately. Same goes for every other peripheral. Speakers, mouse, keyboard all need to be USB. Unless all of your peripherals are already USB connected, buying the adapters to connect them via USB will probably cost as much as it would cost to just get the USB dock in the first place. You could use a USB hub to connect your external stuff to your laptop but it's definitely NOT functionally equivalent. You stating they are is like someone claiming that a tent trailer is functionally equivalent to a travel trailer or 5th wheel. All get the job done but the last 2 of them do it better.720Views0likes0CommentsRe: New desktop computer?
A USB hub is definitely not the same thing as a docking station. I've actually never used one of the USB docking stations, I've used business class laptops that have dedicated docking ports built-in. The advantage to the dedicated docking port is that you make only a single connection to the laptop and everything, power, video, audio, etc... is connected. With a USB dock, you need to connect at least the power adapter cord to the laptop in addition to the USB connection to the dock. With a USB Hub, you'd need to connect power, video and the USB connection to the switch. In addition, all peripherals used (keyboard, mouse, audio, etc...) need to be USB, not so with a docking station.319Views0likes0CommentsRe: New desktop computer?
A laptop with a docking station might be the answer. A docking station allows you to connect your laptop to things like keyboard, mouse, external monitor, printer, network, etc... by a single connection (USB port, generally). When using a laptop connected to the various peripherals mentioned above, using it is basically indistinguishable from using a desktop for most computing tasks. I have been using a laptop with docking station as my main work computer for about 7 years now. I use all the typical Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc...) as well as compilers, VMs and various other software. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Universal-Docking-Station-Ethernet/dp/B00ECDM78E318Views0likes0CommentsRe: What do you do to maintain your PC
HackerAce wrote: Buy a Macbook, but seriously, when I was a Windows user I would routinely format the hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. Look into Cisco Umbrella, a cheap way to protect yourself from the evil ness of the interwebs. I sincerely don't know what you could possibly be doing to your computer that would require you to reformat it routinely. I built the computer I'm using to type this post about 5 years ago, installed Windows on it then (Windows 7, since upgraded in-place to Win 10) and haven't experienced any slowdowns or malfunctions that would require a reformat. I have had computers that I used for 10 years without reformatting. The onlt time you should need to reformat and reinstall is in the case of a disk drive failure.551Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows 10 and Streets and Trips
ken burke wrote: Well, I do not agree w other posts that says you can still use micossoft S&T. You can't. Microsoft stopped supporting S@Ts 3 or 4 years ago. They let the license expire. I have not been able to use it for a year or so. It is really a shame. I had a ton of info on my S@T that I lost. Good campgrounds, good roads, great restrauents. I lost a lot of history. ken I had a copy of S&T 2013 laying around. I just installed and activated it on my laptop running the latest Windows 10 update thru the license server. No problems. Works fine.348Views0likes0Comments
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