Here you go Papaw . A nice Dell laptop with 128gb solid state drive and a 1 terrabyte or 1000 gb if you don't understand terrabyte regular hard drive , a wicked fast video card , I5 cpu , led screen and Linux Mint pre-installed for around the same price as the Apple . Linux Laptops Sale, Laptop with Linux Preinstalled - The Linux Laptop Company
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My laptop is 4 or 5 years old. It has 750GB HDD. The C drive is about half full. The D drive is empty. Lots of room left. Had 6GB of memory. Added 2GB more for 8GB total to run AutoCAD. I haven't tapped out of anything yet and probably wont for a good while. I don't even know if you can buy a 750GB computer anymore.
We have a bulk trash day, and you can start a week ahead leaving things on the curb. Makes me so happy when people stop to pick things up. Much better than the landfill. Nice job!
I have a desktop that I basically built , dual hard drives for Linux and Windoze for gaming, 750 watt power supply running it . I7 and a fast video card . Would have cost a fortune to buy a laptop with the same capabilities .
My 11” Air from 2011 has 128 gb. That was my one gripe with it. The 13” has 256 gb. Apple was just starting to push everyone to cloud storage, which I don’t dig.
The small drive was only a problem when I had all of my vast number of digital photos and my massive digital music collection on it. I moved the photos to backup drives. Apple’s photo library was part of the problem. It was nice for viewing and browsing pics - but its database was like a duplicate of every pic. So it was doubling the space needed for an already big collection. Stupid programmers!
I moved the music to an external drive. After that, the space was plenty. I mostly use that laptop for browsing and for Unix access to website servers that I manage. It wasn’t until I installed MS Office on it that the space shrank a lot.
Depending how you use it and how many apps you want on it, 128 gb is plenty. Apple does charge ridiculous amounts for upgrading the hard drives. And with Airs you had to purchase the size you wanted. It’s an integrated SSD drive that can’t be swapped out later. That part is a nuisance too.
@PapawBrett - Pay attention to the connections (USB, etc) because the Air is typically limited in those. Regular MacBooks (non-Air versions) are more flexible in connections. The Air is loved for being super-portable. Slim and lightweight. Also, the screens on both Air and non are glossy or at least they were. You want to make sure you’re okay with that. Some people prefer matte screens. Airs also have no internal DVD drives. You can’t pop in a movie or a CD. Regular MacBooks should have DVD drives.
So in others words you figured out the easier way to do it after you did it the hard way...……(been there)
Yep. Exactly. I figured no group would appreciate my confession more than the Army fam.
Nice job on the clean up! I love that people came by like that and so fast!
Yer darn tootin’ you ain’t! Heh heh.
Vegas is not so great with recycling. Wish it was better. In the recent past, you could take electronics to Best Buy for drop off and recycling. I did that when I moved. I don’t know if they still do that. It’s not just environmentalism but also that our generation hates to see so much waste.
Anyone else see this? This is bad. Upsetting. The attacks are forking out and morphing.
Vapers Sue Juul For Nicotine Addiction
Vapers Sue Juul For Nicotine Addiction
I've personally had a good experience several times with "Newegg.com" if that's any help. I still find the PC suits my needs better than a surfing machine. No doubt that MAC's are better made, but they do fail eventually. At least with the PC laptops, I can haul all those screws off the back and can replace "bits" 
More fake lawsuits from fake people paid a couple of bucks, I suspect. Funny thing is that they'd have lit up cigarettes anyway, and got addicted to a whole lot worse than a clean nicotine.
Yes! Especially the kid whose whole life is supposedly ruined because of his “nicotine addiction.” Ridiculous.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get in touch with my lawyer. We have a suit to file against Maxwell House for my caffeine addiction. It’s ruined my life, I tell ya!
Don't be surprised if caffeine is next.......for a huge tax increase at least. gotta make up for the lost tobacco money doncha know.
It’s true! There are already rumblings of that. Next up: hamburgers, French fries, soda and chocolate. When they go after chocolate, that’s when they’ll have to face the wrath of millions of women with PMS. Then they’ll learn what a fight is!
Think I'd have to go with the Dell with Linux Mint on it then . Much easier to upgrade and that Nvidia graphics chip makes short work of video . I have no use for the cloud either , other than telling them where to shove the cloud . I don't like the trend of no optical drives included on laptops . Another ounce of freedom of choice going down the tubes .
That's where I get my parts from and I know BK does business with them as well . Definitely recommend them for PC's and parts .I've personally had a good experience several times with "Newegg.com" if that's any help. I still find the PC suits my needs better than a surfing machine. No doubt that MAC's are better made, but they do fail eventually. At least with the PC laptops, I can haul all those screws off the back and can replace "bits"
+1 on Newegg.com! Between them and TigerDirect.com, I was able to equip my little startup business on a shoestring budget back in the 90’s. It could have been an even shorter shoestring, but I had geek shinyitis something awful. I poured over there catalogues (remember those?!?) and wanted all that I saw.
Except joysticks. And the controllers made to mimic airplane flight controls for playing Flight Simulator. Those had no appeal for me.
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Agreed. It's all based on the principle that the people shall own Nothing. Not your car (leases) your home (the government can stomp in on it any time for any reason) your music, your movies, your other software and so on.
Good Morning Army. Easing into coffee before 8 am Doctor's Office ...
Been looking up computer stuff. At least I understand what "Google" is.
Linux is not a device. I need a device. Actual physical property.
AS operating systems (Software ?) goes, Linux and MacOS are nearly identical (?)
Windoze is the most common, and generally well liked. But it takes 500,000 of memory just to operate, and keeps adding to that due to malware, hacks, and other "Updates". Found on many Brands of PC including Dell.
Apple Users are "the Provarinati" of the PC world. They should be, considering what it costs. And they try very hard to stay in their own little corner of the world, example- Thunderbolt 2. But the basic operating code (platform ?) is simplified. Actually quite puny compared to Windows. It takes up far less space and less susceptible to the malicious things out there in cyberspace.
I don't trust Google, even though I am using it now. I always get the feeling I am being watched by snot-faced college kids who aren't even old enough to shave, but are getting paid to spy on average citizens. Welcome to the misinformation age. Imagine someone who never outgrew "Gerber's". That's who is watching you right now. (No, I am not into tin foil hats).
And I am supposed to go dump $1000 or more for this ?
Old Man Rant over ...
Have a Safe and Blessed Day
Been looking up computer stuff. At least I understand what "Google" is.
Linux is not a device. I need a device. Actual physical property.
AS operating systems (Software ?) goes, Linux and MacOS are nearly identical (?)
Windoze is the most common, and generally well liked. But it takes 500,000 of memory just to operate, and keeps adding to that due to malware, hacks, and other "Updates". Found on many Brands of PC including Dell.
Apple Users are "the Provarinati" of the PC world. They should be, considering what it costs. And they try very hard to stay in their own little corner of the world, example- Thunderbolt 2. But the basic operating code (platform ?) is simplified. Actually quite puny compared to Windows. It takes up far less space and less susceptible to the malicious things out there in cyberspace.
I don't trust Google, even though I am using it now. I always get the feeling I am being watched by snot-faced college kids who aren't even old enough to shave, but are getting paid to spy on average citizens. Welcome to the misinformation age. Imagine someone who never outgrew "Gerber's". That's who is watching you right now. (No, I am not into tin foil hats).
And I am supposed to go dump $1000 or more for this ?
Old Man Rant over ...
Have a Safe and Blessed Day
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