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On 3/30/2017 10:40 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 05:48:47 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/29/2017 9:04 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:34:37 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

You can get back in forth to work in a Tesla too but you don't really
need all of that power. I guess if you want the biggest and baddest
machine on the block, go for it. You can afford it. ;-)

Lesson I learned a long time ago from a old timer
mechanical engineer (P.E.)

"When in doubt, make it stout".

Unfortunately, in the computer biz, stout is not the same as fast.
I had to give up my PC based MP3 players because once you got much
beyond a P1 166, reliability in the Florida car environment because
you couldn't keep them cool. The same was true of hard drives. Once
you got much over 10-15gig, they started getting more heat sensitive.

My interest in laptops used to be as cheap (to run) servers since they
used to run at "night light" levels of power. This last one I got came
with a 90w power brick. You need to put a towel in your lap if you
actually use it as a laptop or you will roast your nuts. The Dell
Latitude (P3/400 W/98 machine) I am running back in the shop is always
cool to the touch.
The specs say it pulls a max of 36w but it seems to cruise in the
10-15w just talking to the printer, scanner or banging an external
hard drive.

Greg, not many people use or are as interested in computers as you are.
I really am not interested in seeing how long I could use Windows 98.

When your objective does not change, why should your hardware and
software change? Most home users are doing very simple tasks on their
PC and yet we have convinced them they need a machine that is as fast
as the ones used by animators at Pixar. I guess it is just me but my
97 Honda gets me up to the Publix just as well as a brand new Bugatti
would. I do not measure my self worth by things I have acquired.

Has nothing to do with self worth Greg. It has everthing to do with
when the damn thing stops working after 8 or 9 years and you don't feel
like getting involved with swapping parts or fixing it. A computer,
especially a laptop, is basically a throw away item to me when it craps
out after using it for that long.

Think of it this way. In the past 10 years I've purchased two
computers, both laptops. I still am using the second one I purchased.
Neither were "top of the line" but they also weren't the most inexpensive.

So, how many have you bought or acquired second hand in the past 10 years?

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:12:29 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/30/2017 10:40 AM, wrote:

When your objective does not change, why should your hardware and
software change? Most home users are doing very simple tasks on their
PC and yet we have convinced them they need a machine that is as fast
as the ones used by animators at Pixar. I guess it is just me but my
97 Honda gets me up to the Publix just as well as a brand new Bugatti
would. I do not measure my self worth by things I have acquired.

Has nothing to do with self worth Greg. It has everthing to do with
when the damn thing stops working after 8 or 9 years and you don't feel
like getting involved with swapping parts or fixing it. A computer,
especially a laptop, is basically a throw away item to me when it craps
out after using it for that long.

Think of it this way. In the past 10 years I've purchased two
computers, both laptops. I still am using the second one I purchased.
Neither were "top of the line" but they also weren't the most inexpensive.

So, how many have you bought or acquired second hand in the past 10 years?

3 in the last 15 years (one this month) and they are all still going.

I have a few dead soldiers people gave me and I was not willing to
screw with because it was more than a bad hard drive. I just took the
drive out and chucked them. Laptops have never been my favorite simply
because they use all proprietary parts, even within manufacturers and
similar looking models. The price of parts make them unrewarding to
fix.

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