Nick these all sound like pretty good ideas. To me it seems like their's always some need to get a pretty good sized hard drive. FWIW I didn't guess right for my computer. I thought 1 terabyte would be plenty. I am wrong. As to the cloud. Yeah I don't know. For back up? It's pretty good. I just think it's about the right thing for the job. I don't know if anyone else has suggested this: ram; Windows eats surprisling large amount.
Question: do you particularly need or really want to stay with a laptop? HP isn't all that good of a computer company. Just my experience it hasn't been all that good since...forever at least the 90's and really since the 80's I'd say. My brother (Tim) a while back got a think pad. At the time seemed to like it. I don't know what their like now. Anyone have some opinions their anygood still? I thought his wife The reason I suggest thinking about a desktop. Is it might be a lot less hastle to get a good hard drive and ram. Plus installing them is not at all straitforward even at a shop with a ton of equipment. experience. I have done it with a hand me down from owen(dad). But let me tell you on the apple it was not that straitward and seriusly had a few moments: Oh fuck please tell me that dropped screw didn't hork something up. I totally agree with the SSD(their really big thumb drives basically)..and I didn't know that a 500 gig one is about 90.. that's awesome ! . On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:01 PM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > I think getting the largest SSD you can afford is a good idea, 500G SSD > internal drives are around $90, a terabyte is less than twice that. Get a > laptop with a small SSD in the best technology and have someone swap in a > bigger and badder drive. > > Just don't lose the laptop. My dad spilled orange juice into his laptop > case once on a visit, never did find out why he was travelling with it. Or > maybe you should just do that first and solve all your data storage > problems up front? > > Micro SD cards are great, but I can't find any of mine other than the one > that's plugged into my laptop. And the slots tend to be all connected with > USB 2.0 buses last time I checked. Which I had to do by bench marking the > same card in a USB 3.0 adapter vs the builtin reader slot, because no one > specifies how the built ion SD card interface is provisioned. > > -- rec -- > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:42 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez < > alfr...@covaleda.co> wrote: > >> Marcus idea is good. During years I have been using a cheap Chinese SD >> card as main drive using LINUX OS running on an old tiny laptop which lack >> of a mechanical hard drive. I have just updated to a newer Linux >> distribution and I also installed Dropbox there, so I always bring my >> important files. These days you could buy 1024 GB SD for less than 50 US >> dollars. >> >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> >> wrote: >> >>> If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: >>> https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, everybody. >>> >>> In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 >>> year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard >>> drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a >>> ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have >>> to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing >>> eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to >>> lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge >>> SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so >>> what the hell. >>> >>> Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it >>> just COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking >>> out of your laptops, or am I missing something here? >>> >>> I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal >>> injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time >>> to suck it up? >>> >>> The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to >>> rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above >>> mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of >>> the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant >>> to help me straighten out the mess I have made. >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Nicholas S. Thompson >>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >>> Clark University >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM >>> To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers >>> >>> You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that >>> *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay >>> attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to >>> put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of >>> installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space >>> requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual >>> memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary >>> drive(s). >>> >>> On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: >>> > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and >>> that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing >>> since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives >>> are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the >>> new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 >>> connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly >>> available, and what is merely almost instantly available. >>> > >>> > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly >>> (there are programs to make that automatic). >>> > >>> > --Barry >>> > >>> > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: >>> > >>> > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was >>> old >>> > and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the >>> standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk >>> space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying >>> larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} >>> Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are >>> people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or >>> telling some software to store to them? How’s that work? >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Sorry to bother you with this. 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