Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/30/17 11:00 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/30/2017 8:01 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/30/17 7:35 AM, justan wrote:
Bill Wrote in message:
Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:25:49 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:17:47 -0400, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

This summer will see us doing a bit of travelling, and I'm finally
giving serious thought to getting
a laptop. Any one having good or bad luck with theirs?

I have had pretty good luck with Lenovo (formerly IBM) and my 2 1996
vintage 365s still run but they are not fast enough to do much.



We use tablets. Both wife and I have iPad mini. Works well for
traveling.
Gets and sends email. Which is 80% of the travel use. Other 20% is
looking up local places or maps. Tablets are great for that. We
download
books from our local library as well as Amazon so when on airplanes
can
read or play games. For wifi we either use hotels, phone hotspot, or
Starbucks or McDonald's. I also have Xfinity for home, and they have
public wifi wherever Comcast is a provider. The tablet is a lot more
convenient than a laptop for travel, where you do not need it for
business
use.

My wife's got a tablet she uses in the truck for finding campgrounds,
cheap fuel, etc, plus all the
stuff she does. I want something on which I can store files, pay
bills, etc.


I can bank online with the the iPad. Depending on memory size, can
store
stuff, and use for pictures. It runs safari or Crome.



Does the Apple stuff allow use of sd cards for storage?
Freind of
mine was complaining that she was getting memory full errors. I
didn't see a way to add storage to her phone.


There are external storage devices that work with iPhone and iPads.



His question was, "Does the Apple stuff allow use of *sd* cards for
storage?"

One of the reasons I don't like Apple products is that you often have to
do it Apple's way, using Apple manufactured accessories.





That's one of the reasons why Apple devices are more reliable. My laptop
is about four years old, with a 512-gig solid state hard drive, 8 gigs
of RAM and it also holds in a slot a large SD card on which I have
stored about 50 full-length movies to watch when I travel, and my 4,000
song music library. It's never hiccuped once. The various free OS
upgrades are evolutionary and require little time to update and use.


Most of those Apple accessories are the same as everyone else's except for
a software ID. When I worked at Maxtor we made disk drives for Apple.
Same drive as we made for everybody, but the SCSI ID was different.