Paphos Life

paulok wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:16 am My main laptop is a 2011 Macbook Air and its still going strong.

In that Timeframe Windows laptops have changed the User interface FOUR times Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and Win 10. Each upgrade requires more Horespower in terms of CPU and Ram and they really want you to buy a new Laptop with each upgrade.
I would recommend a Refurbished Mac and plan to keep it for as long as possible. It does not have to have a big harddrive and just subscribe to Dropbox or some other cloud storage service.

paulok wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:16 am My main laptop is a 2011 Macbook Air and its still going strong.

In that Timeframe Windows laptops have changed the User interface FOUR times Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and Win 10. Each upgrade requires more Horespower in terms of CPU and Ram and they really want you to buy a new Laptop with each upgrade.
I would recommend a Refurbished Mac and plan to keep it for as long as possible. It does not have to have a big harddrive and just subscribe to Dropbox or some other cloud storage service.

Ubuntu is an option if you have some IT skills but there are still issues with Printer drivers , Wifi, and other peripherals so it could be a frustrating experience if you just want a laptop for day to day use.

Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:44 am You may just need to update your sound drivers.

PeteandSylvi wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:35 am I never cease to be amazed at the amazing marketing job Apple, the world's greediest company, have achieved in making people believe that by paying enormously more for their products they getting something better. They have pulled so many strokes at ripping their customers off who still come back in droves.

There was a time, many years ago, when Apple provided the best machines for graphic design work. Those days are long gone and I'd like to hear from anyone that can offer me something an Apple laptop can do that a Windows laptop cannot. For the kind of day to day use that most of us have there is nothing to choose between Windows/Apple OS/Linux based machines.

As for reliability my 9 year old Toshiba laptop is still going strong and does everything I need. I updated from Vista to Win 10 and treated it to an SSD disk both of which gave it an extra boost of performance and life. I do still maintain the Linux Mint partition that became my alternative when Vista was slowing everything down but haven't used it in anger since Win 10 loaded.

I do run virus protection and why not, it costs nothing and has no noticeable overhead. I have never had a virus on my laptop. I firmly believe that most viruses will enter machines by being invited in when fingers press daft requests without any common sense being applied.

The suggestion that you need more power for every Window upgrade because they want you to buy a new laptop is utter nonsense not only in my opinion but by the evidence. For example who is "they"? It certainly isn't Microsoft because they don't sell you the laptop!

So the decision on which laptop type to buy becomes simple. Either go for a Windows based machine and pay a reasonable amount or go for an Apple and pay through the nose and end up with the same functionality.

As for the current machine, if the disk drive is clunking why not have a new disk drive installed? It's just a plug-in component and unless there is anything else wrong that you haven't mentioned you may get many more years from the machine, possibly something the computer shop don't want you to have.

Pete

Hudswell wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:31 pm And of course Apple products looks so dammed good.....you get what you pay for, simply the best....looks and performance.

Road Warrior wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:57 pm

robf wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2017 3:51 pm Hi

I would recommend apple too. My laptop is updated to windows 10 and is proving to be a real frustration. It was really slow for a while until I tracked down the problem to windows defender, it was in a continuous loop checking itself (turned off defender, not easy, then installed 3rd party virus software) . Sat down to do some work this morning and it took 1 hr to boot up properly (got its knickers in a twist over chrome). It is really irritating in so many ways, I just cannot begin to tell Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Rob

I never recommend an upgrade to Win 10, everyone I know who has upgraded had had issues with connectivity, mouse/touchpad, peripheral compatibility however, factory installed it is an excellent OS.