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42 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

Is that still a thing?

I would be working on something and my old Dell would tell me it has to shut down, gave me a blue screen with some stuff on it that I did not ever really read and some QR code I could scan.  Machine was getting old and bit wonky, so I just decided to upgrade.  

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2 minutes ago, jsharrwick said:

It fired right up.  Checked the filter and it was not full of metal shavings and has not double posted yet, so I should be good to go.  Set to Chrome and Outlook for defaults and downloaded the latest Office suite and Dropbox and should be good to go.  

...do you have a program that will upload all your porn bookmarks to the new machine ?

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1 hour ago, jsharrwick said:

It asked me to upgrade.  I declined

I would have installed W11.  Sometimes it's better to upgrade before you load your software and data.  But that's me...

What version of Office?   I get to upgrade that too when I finally give up on my old laptop and WoBG's computer.    I scored 2016 Office Processional+ for $25 on a DVD just before I retired. 

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9 hours ago, Bikeguy said:

I would have installed W11.  Sometimes it's better to upgrade before you load your software and data.  But that's me...

What version of Office?   I get to upgrade that too when I finally give up on my old laptop and WoBG's computer.    I scored 2016 Office Processional+ for $25 on a DVD just before I retired. 

We have the online subscription to Office 365 at work so I download the current version 

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19 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

2 words... MacBook

 

You got a right (or even ability) to repair that bad boy?!?!?!

Looking at the specs for the admittedly entry-level Mac mini, and it clearly states in many places - RAM and HD are NOT upgradeable, so buy what you really need NOW.  If you can't upgrade a drive later, how do you fix a faulty drive without going to an "authorized" shop or Apple directly?

Are the MacBooks different?

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31 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

2 words... MacBook

 

I am an old DOS and you cannot teach me new tricks.

Everything I do probably works better on a PC instead of MAC.  Have to work in Word and Excel a lot and most of the reports our accounting and transfer agent platforms put out are in Excel.  

Nothing against Macs, but I got an 11th Gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, 17" 2560*1600 display for under $1400. 

If I went Mac, I would have a 13" MacBook Pro.  

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5 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

Our IT guy said I need to upgrade my laptop soon.  It has some software on it for my access control system which is a PITA to load up as we need our IT and the Vendor to do it so the swap is on hold.  It still works fine though. 

My old laptop has been used hard.  I am never off work, even when glamping or on vacation so this one has been to the beach and mountains and a few places in between.  Been dropped at least once and has had a cup of coffee poured on it and it still ran, but with the random, SORRY BUT WE HAVE TO SHUT DOWN messages getting more frequent, I decided to replace it before it became like Dr. Mickins car battery.

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10 minutes ago, jsharrwick said:

I am an old DOS and you cannot teach me new tricks.

Everything I do probably works better on a PC instead of MAC.  Have to work in Word and Excel a lot and most of the reports our accounting and transfer agent platforms put out are in Excel.  

Nothing against Macs, but I got an 11th Gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, 17" 2560*1600 display for under $1400. 

If I went Mac, I would have a 13" MacBook Pro.  

Screen size - in an office or home office - is not really an issue any more, as whether I plug in a desktop, ultra-portable laptop, or high-powered desktop replacement, it will all be using my same external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.  

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2 minutes ago, jsharrwick said:

My old laptop has been used hard.  I am never off work, even when glamping or on vacation so this one has been to the beach and mountains and a few places in between.  Been dropped at least once and has had a cup of coffee poured on it and it still ran, but with the random, SORRY BUT WE HAVE TO SHUT DOWN messages getting more frequent, I decided to replace it before it became like Dr. Mickins car battery.

Although I’m using it at this moment I rarely use mine. Cell phone out of the office or my PC at my desk.  Maybe 2-3 times a month do I even use my  company lap top.

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8 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

Although I’m using it at this moment I rarely use mine. Cell phone out of the office or my PC at my desk.  Maybe 2-3 times a month do I even use my  company lap top.

Weird you have a desktop AND a laptop.  We just "dock" our laptops, so they are only used as portable devices when needed, otherwise essentially they are desktops.  Pre-COVID, that was important as we would WFH a couple times a week, so you had to "lug" a laptop back and forth, but with full time WFH, it is less a thing.

Right now, we do not even offer a desktop option when you get hired or as a replacement PC.  It is all laptops - three choices from lightweight 2 in 1, to "normal", to desktop replacement.  If you want a true desktop, that's a different process outside the box altogether.  You can get one, but you need a good reason why and management approval.

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8 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

Although I’m using it at this moment I rarely use mine. Cell phone out of the office or my PC at my desk.  Maybe 2-3 times a month do I even use my  company lap top.

I often get called into meetings where my laptop is necessary to grab numbers to answer questions.  CEO hates to look stuff up on his own or dig for it in a report.

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1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

Weird you have a desktop AND a laptop.  We just "dock" our laptops, so they are only used as portable devices when needed, otherwise essentially they are desktops.  Pre-COVID, that was important as we would WFH a couple times a week, so you had to "lug" a laptop back and forth, but with full time WFH, it is less a thing.

Right now, we do not even offer a desktop option when you get hired or as a replacement PC.  It is all laptops - three choices from lightweight 2 in 1, to "normal", to desktop replacement.  If you want a true desktop, that's a different process outside the box altogether.  You can get one, but you need a good reason why and management approval.

We are about evenly split there.  CFO and our Brand Protection guy dock.  Our in office software engineer has a PC and docks his laptop.  CEO and COO are straight laptop.  I use a PC in my office with decent sized dual monitors and have my laptop and a 15.6 external monitor at the ready.  Our animator runs a docked MacBook and a big PC gaming rig.  Customer service split between PC and laptop, one of each.  

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5 hours ago, Kzoo said:

So sorry to hear that.

 

Yeah, it's not painful to me.  I've had work computers that still do this from time to time.  But the frequency is rare.  I have a chromebook and MacOS at home and this stuff never happens. But then the 3rd party vendor pool writing software drivers is much smaller.

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7 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

Looking at the specs for the admittedly entry-level Mac mini, and it clearly states in many places - RAM and HD are NOT upgradeable, so buy what you really need NOW.  If you can't upgrade a drive later, how do you fix a faulty drive without going to an "authorized" shop or Apple directly?

I'll probably never buy a Mac.  I have upgraded and/or repaired more than of few of my computers over the years.  

The hard drive on my laptop started to fail when it was under warranty.  I had Lenovo send me a new hard drive (for free) and I installed it.  Then about 2 1/2 years ago I swapped the hard drive to a SSD and the laptop was sooooo much faster, I didn't need a new laptop. 

The farmers should be pissed off about John Deere. 

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7 hours ago, jsharrwick said:

, but I got an 11th Gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, 17" 2560*1600 display for under $1400. 

Nice...    

7 hours ago, jsharrwick said:

Been dropped at least once and has had a cup of coffee poured on it and it still ran,

I killed at least 2 (maybe 3) company laptops when I worked.  Gravity got at least 1 (maybe 2). 

I worked on Y2K night.  There were concerns about possible equipment failures.   I was a the dispatch center working my storm job.  At 7:00 PM the IT guy had a meeting and explain the procedure for reporting any computer and/or system failures.   About 2 hours later I called the IT guy.   I told him my laptop died.   He came FAST to my desk, and wanted to know what was the problem.  I told him, "It stopped, after a cup of coffee spilled into the keyboard."    That was our only failure on Y2K nigh. 

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