Laptop Recs?
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@voodoo have you received the invoice yet?
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@Paekakboyz said in Laptop Recs?:
@voodoo have you received the invoice yet?
My fax machine is broken and it's the weekend, will get onto it tomorrow.
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@Paekakboyz agree, 512 isn't huge but as you say, external or cloud are options, particularly since it's going to be in a desk setup most of the time. There's enough budget left over on the ex-lease for options.
Turns out there's not much out there under $2000 with 16GB RAM and discrete graphics other than gaming or ex-lease laptops.
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@Bones said in Laptop Recs?:
@Paekakboyz said in Laptop Recs?:
@voodoo have you received the invoice yet?
My fax machine is broken and it's the weekend, will get onto it tomorrow.
working with some grads a few years ago. Of the three of them, two had never sent or received a fax. One had sent one once when required by someone else. Time changes - they're talking about finally removing them from legal and pharmacies as the technology is just so outdated (but reliable)
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@nzzp said in Laptop Recs?:
@Bones said in Laptop Recs?:
@Paekakboyz said in Laptop Recs?:
@voodoo have you received the invoice yet?
My fax machine is broken and it's the weekend, will get onto it tomorrow.
working with some grads a few years ago. Of the three of them, two had never sent or received a fax. One had sent one once when required by someone else. Time changes - they're talking about finally removing them from legal and pharmacies as the technology is just so outdated (but reliable)
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I have one client that still sends all his declarations by Fax, I have tried to point out the PDF forms he is filling are able to be completed online too....
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@MajorRage why? Other than for graphic design stuff, what is Apple actually better for?
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@voodoo said in Laptop Recs?:
@MajorRage why? Other than for graphic design stuff, what is Apple actually better for?
I don't understand Apple at all. Windows makes more sense but its what I'm used to
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@canefan yeah same. That was a genuine question. I had a mac and an iphone about a decade ago, but swore off apple forever when I spent weeks trying to move photos onto an external hard drive unsuccessfully, then both machines karked it (is that how you spell that???) within a day of each other.
I never got the operating system of the mac, but to be fair never really persevered with it either.
Genuinely interested to understand why people prefer them these days.
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I used Macs years ago and went to windows, mostly due to availability of software. Never looked back.
My old man is still Apple and his computer does my head in. He has stopped asking me for help in case I smash it. They might have started with the "intuitive" interface but they lost it somewhere. I do like my iPhone and iPad (nearly typed IPA there, which would also have been true).
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@voodoo said in Laptop Recs?:
I'm a full Samsung/Google convert these days
Might give it a try next time.
Apple did piss me off with a recent update to iPad. Was trying to airplay something which used to be a swipe up to get the menu thing, they moved it and I had to google to find that it is now top right corner. Yes, I could have read the update instructions but I am a Kiwi bloke. We don't do that.
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@MajorRage said in Laptop Recs?:
In all honestly, if you aren’t a tech head or running some serious shit on Excel, you should be on Apple.
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who the fuck stores porn?
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@mariner4life said in Laptop Recs?:
who the fuck stores porn?
Not married guys that’s for sure....but pretty sure the rules don’t apply for girls
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@voodoo said in Laptop Recs?:
@canefan yeah same. That was a genuine question. I had a mac and an iphone about a decade ago, but swore off apple forever when I spent weeks trying to move photos onto an external hard drive unsuccessfully, then both machines karked it (is that how you spell that???) within a day of each other.
I never got the operating system of the mac, but to be fair never really persevered with it either.
Genuinely interested to understand why people prefer them these days.
I've owned Macs for over 10 years now and throughout much of that time I've been using PC's at work so I'm familiar with both.
I have an 11 year white Macbook that I still use for certain games, a 5 year old Macbook Pro that has no issues whatsoever (which I was going to give to my Mum when I bought my new one, but she went and bought a PC laptop without telling me) and a new Macbook Pro from last year. I've never had issues with them and there is no noticeable drop in speed on the 5 year old Pro.
Every PC I've had at work has had issues during the time I've been using them, and that's without getting into the frequency/timing of updates. Every single one has become more and more sluggish after each update. Conversely with most, but not all, Mac operating system updates usually improve performance and fee up hard drive space.
The most annoying thing about Mac is the need to buy a hub to use anything on it because they only have USB-C ports. There are other small annoyances with them that I can't think of, off the top of my head, but nothing major.
I find the iPad more annoying than Macs, I don't know why they can't just have a normal file system and it does stupid things sometimes when it wont allow you to move a downloaded book to Books or Kindle so I've got to download it on my Mac and airdrop it to my iPad. Also, file apps downloaded from the app store work way better than there stupid half pie Files app.
Also, just let me watch a fucking video in the browser without opening the Youtube app.
@MajorRage said in Laptop Recs?:
In all honestly, if you aren’t a tech head or running some serious shit on Excel, you should be on Apple.
How do we define serious shit on Excel? I use it constantly in a Mac without issue whereas up until a few years ago I had to use a workaround on a PC to have two spreadsheets open side by side on my monitors, that always baffled the shit out of me ... but at least they fixed that.
