Do not know what software or business you run, but have you ever performed a risk assessment? I’ve seen a fair share of great financial losses due to EOL software
Do not know what software or business you run, but have you ever performed a risk assessment? I’ve seen a fair share of great financial losses due to EOL software
You've been fortunate with your 2011 models. I had two Macbook Pro 2011's fail with the infamous GPU issue. Just google it, plenty of 2011's had the problem.
And re: s/w that won't run on a Mac:
I haven't updated my OSX eScribe s/w for some time so it might have changed ... but the version I'm running has a 32 bit component. That's likely to stop it from running on Catalina which only supports 64 bit apps.
Yes the 15”. 2011. Is known for that issue, it’s very common & reflects in its resale price
. Luckily. We have. 13”. Models 
No one can change BillW50's mind about many beliefs he has. I don't even try. I still love that guy and his (even numbered) buying habits. Reminds me of me
But thinking of Moore's Law from the 70's which is probably no longer valid (pretty sure someone will correct me (cuz I don't scour the net if it's still valid) chip densities/power doubles every 2 years for the same price, I only ever built my PC's onesies, so to have 8 Gateways or multiple Alienware, in hindsight might not have been the greatest
Competition is always good for any industry, whether it be in VCR's, competing DVD formats, OS's, anything and everything.
A wise man, Ben Franklin once said 'Time is money'
MikeE3 I'll slap escribe on the latest OS today (10.15.4 IIRC) and get back to you with an answer.
But thinking of Moore's Law from the 70's which is probably no longer valid (pretty sure someone will correct me (cuz I don't scour the net if it's still valid) chip densities/power doubles every 2 years for the same price, I only ever built my PC's onesies, so to have 8 Gateways or multiple Alienware, in hindsight might not have been the greatest
Competition is always good for any industry, whether it be in VCR's, competing DVD formats, OS's, anything and everything.
A wise man, Ben Franklin once said 'Time is money'
MikeE3 I'll slap escribe on the latest OS today (10.15.4 IIRC) and get back to you with an answer.
No one can change BillW50's mind about many beliefs he has. I don't even try. I still love that guy and his (even numbered) buying habits. Reminds me of me
But thinking of Moore's Law from the 70's which is probably no longer valid (pretty sure someone will correct me (cuz I don't scour the net if it's still valid) chip densities/power doubles every 2 years for the same price, I only ever built my PC's onesies, so to have 8 Gateways or multiple Alienware, in hindsight might not have been the greatest
Competition is always good for any industry, whether it be in VCR's, competing DVD formats, OS's, anything and everything.
A wise man, Ben Franklin once said 'Time is money'
MikeE3 I'll slap escribe on the latest OS today (10.15.4 IIRC) and get back to you with an answer.
That would be nice of you. I'm running Mojave and dumping and trying to replace some of my legacy 32 bit apps before moving to Catalina.
My Mac & E-scribe are up to date, Running fine Here
Opps ... we were posting at the same time ... thank you. But I'm sure it would behoove me to update my eScribe ... it's an old version.
Where? They were super rare. Even four USB ports alone were rare. Although two or three were fairly common. And I used all eight of them.
Surprising very well. The dock also has a parallel and RS-232 ports that the M465 doesn't have. I suspect the dock also has quite a bit electronics within as well. The dock's power supply is much beefier than the laptop's power supply and the dock's supply can supply power to the dock and the laptop.
The Gateway M465 came configured with many different CPUs options. Three from the top of my head were T2400, T5600, and T7400, but there were lots more. But the one I use the most does use a T7400. And look at that connector between the dock and laptop. How many pins? Like a hundred? What's all inside of that dock? Another computer?
Ah true. But you are forgetting one important ingredient. You also need the drivers. Without drivers it is useless and I have been foiled many times by the lack of drivers. Heck once I had to hack one video card driver to work with another card that didn't have a driver. That was a nightmare. I really hate writing video card drivers. And the Gateway M465 had the drivers for the old and new.
Ah... yes SATA was replacing PATA then, which was a PIA to install XP SP2 or lower on SATA drive. And PCIe went mainstream around 2007. Wasn't WiFi cards already using them? Anyway I know some netbooks were using PCIe SSD.
9x developed program? No I meant running any NT based Windows version you wanted to. Because all the drivers were available. Plus you had the old I/O ports if you needed them. Although you could run 9x applications too.
No one can change BillW50's mind about many beliefs he has. I don't even try. I still love that guy and his (even numbered) buying habits. Reminds me of me
I wouldn't say that. You can find older posts from me where I said I never would own an Apple product. Now look at me, I own two iPhone SE. What did it? Flying my DJI drone over my south 40 and making a sharp right turn and the DJI Android App crashed. Almost all the time, same thing, crash. I have a drone hovering over my south 40 and my Android is rebooting.
Is it going to hit something? IDK Is a hawk attacking it? IDK Did the compass crap out again and the wind is blowing it away? IDK. I had to do something about this. And on the RC forums, they assured me the iPhone version doesn't crash. Dang, I had to step over the line where I sworn I would never do. So I bought an iPhone. And they are right, it doesn't crash the App on the iPhone.
Ah... but what would life be like without them?
Anyway I still use them. And I use them along side of the newer ones.
I'm sorry Bill I'm going to have to report you to the Apple Police! The rules clearly state you can NOT! Dis OS if you own an Apple product, prepare to relinquish the 2 SE's
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Aah yes, in my old tired mind it was a new pair of laptops less than a year ago.Anyway I still use them. And I use them along side of the newer ones.
Ya know, about 25 years ago I bought a pair of double Henkel knives. 1 is still in the package
I just tried a Chromebook like OS on my desktop called Cloudready, I ran it from a USB 2.0 flash drive which lets you check that everything is working prior to installing on the hard drive. It was a bit sluggish running off USB 2.0 but looked quite promising.
It is available is 32 or 64 bit, Windows or Mac, no dual boot though. Maybe down the road I'll find something to install it on. About 3 weeks ago I restored a Chromebook for a coworker and the OS was no longer supported, perhaps it can work on that.
After starting Windows 10 again the clock and date was about 8 hours ahead for some reason.
It is available is 32 or 64 bit, Windows or Mac, no dual boot though. Maybe down the road I'll find something to install it on. About 3 weeks ago I restored a Chromebook for a coworker and the OS was no longer supported, perhaps it can work on that.
After starting Windows 10 again the clock and date was about 8 hours ahead for some reason.
Mojave is the last Mac OS that will run both 32 and 64 bit. Their newest OS Catalina is only 64 bit. It annoyed a lot of Mac users. For me moving to Catalina, I've had to replace a text/html editor app that was 32 bit. And I won't be able to run 1 of my older Canon camera apps that I've never used and load the current version of the rest of them ... and to my great dismay I won't be able to run Turbo Tax 2011.
So I'm not really upset if I move to Catalina. I'm staying on Mojave for a while yet, 'till I get more time on the wife's to look at Catalina more.
@Steamer861 ... my wife's computer is running Catalina. I don't get much time to use her 'puter but I did look at iTunes on it because I have a big iTunes library and wanted to see the changes. Some good, some I'll have to get used to. And it's odd using Finder for iPhone/iPad backups now instead of iTunes.
I'll have to plead ignorant, "risk assesment" (in my early days of "higher" education) was combing over code to find possible points of failure. Later often called white hat hacking. If you are referring to outside ingress, I set up a honeypot back in 2003 that occasionally got someone curious but no one in the last 5 years. Who wants to hack into an ancient server that does not have web service set up and contains trash 80 software. The software I have has financial, inventory, work orders, purchase orders, invoicing, and most importantly very powerful and intuitive estimating all integrated. When my former employer switched to this from quickbooks it made quickbooks look like a rudimentary program written on a Sinclair ZX. Funny thing is that it has sold 3 times from the original developer and intuit owns it now under a different name. My 16.1 version uses the old fox pro DBF database structure and files which I am very familiar with and I was licensed as an API developer so I have all the structure relationships etc. I wrote several programs that integrate with the database for some things we wanted that it didn't do exactly the way we wanted. When he closed down and pushed me to open my own business he sold it to me for $1 with 7 licenses (although I only use 2) along with the server and 2 XP clients. Been through 3 hard drives on that old HP Proliant but it keeps on ticking.
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