Re: Dinner Plans for This First Day of November 2024?

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:29:05 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/5/2024 5:32 AM, dsi1 wrote:

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 6:20:23 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 05:25:59 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:
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I want you to continue to worship at the altar of Windows. As long as
Chromebooks stays a marginal
product, the prices will remain low.

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The more of them they sell and make, the cheaper they'll probably get.

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You guess. When the Chromebooks came out they were less than $200. It
was an offer I couldn't refuse. These days you can get one for around
$200 to $300. I suppose you could say the price has stayed the same
since they first came out in 2011. I could get a cheap Windows computer
for under $300 but the performance is going to be horrible.

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While I'm not into Chromebooks, you have a good point there.  I'd bet
that cheap ones perform just as well as small fast tablet computers.
Cheap Windows computers are flat out AWFUL.
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My latest laptop is a circa 2014 enterprise level Dell Latitude.  It
still has better hardware than new $250 Walmart laptops, and I paid less
than $80 for it on eBay.  I think it was a government surplus machine.

I had an old Dell laptop too. It was pretty trick. You could take out
the optical drive and replace it with an auxiliary battery. There was
also a panel you could open and insert a third battery. It must have
been quite a machine back in the day. Unfortunately, it had Windows 10
loaded on it. That machine was outmatched by the OS. I spent a lot of
uncomfortable, awkward, moments booting that up in front of clients. The
Dell spent a lot of its time trying to update itself.