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07-01-2008, 03:20 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
I have an Apple. It's really nice, too fancy for my purposes, but I let them talk me into buying "the best laptop for the money." Don't fall for it, unless you know you will be using your computer for fancy-schmancy stuff.
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07-01-2008, 04:19 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Esther,
Just adding to your post from a friend. Hope you find what you want!
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The laptop keypads is what has held me back in buying one before now.
Those sound good. However, this is July now, so I guess the xp are now extinct?
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07-01-2008, 05:09 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by bethola
I LOVE my MAC. I bought the MS Office 2004 and it is compatible. I think probably for the price DELL may be your best bet.
RE: DOS. Don't let them get to you Sis. Esther. I REMEMBER DOS and 5 1/4 floppy disks AND my FIRST computer was programmed with a CASSETTE RECORDER! LOL WAAAYYY before Commadore 64 from Radio Shack!
RE: VISTA. Clone of the MAC Operating System. I don't have a lot of trouble navigating with it, but, it "glitches" a little too much for my taste. Still would rather use my MAC!
Hope this helps. Only my opinion!
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Yep...we got our first one from Radio Shack...seems like it was nearly $10,000.00. Very expensive and slow.
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Originally Posted by cneasttx
I really need a new Dell desktop. Pray that the Lord will speak to my husband about this, so I can send my old one to my brother in Alaska for his church. Only $500 at Wal-Mart and my husband paid more than that for his new fancy recliner.
I really like Dell Esther, especially after having Gateway as my first PC.
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I like Dell as well. I had Dell at work and I have it at home.
My brother bought a HP that he really likes. I like his screen, it is very clear.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
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07-01-2008, 05:10 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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The laptop keypads is what has held me back in buying one before now.
Those sound good. However, this is July now, so I guess the xp are now extinct?
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Not extinct, they just aren't given out standard with new computers nowadays.
You can still find XP software.
I still have an XP disc.
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07-01-2008, 05:17 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by Esther
The laptop keypads is what has held me back in buying one before now.
Those sound good. However, this is July now, so I guess the xp are now extinct?
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Esther,
When I went to work for the company I am empoyed by now I gave up my nice office with the big executive desk and credenza I had bought for it along with my nice desktop computer.
All of a sudden I was having to use a laptop on a daily basis. I was so frustrated with the smaller keyboard and lack of mouse and keypad that for the first six months or year I carried around a full size keyboard and mouse.
I would plug them in whenever I got to where I was gong. It must have been a funny sight me waking in the office with my laptop in its caee and my full size keyboard and mouse under my arm.
However I discovered that like most new things in life you can learn them and they do become second nature. For about four years now I switch back and forth throughout the day from my personal desktop to my work laptop or personal laptop and don't miss a beat. Once you get used to it a notebook keyboard is just fine. The key is to give it time.
As far as brands go I recommend Dell but also like Toshiba and Acer. Acer has been coming on strong in the market. A few weeks ago I know that Circuit City had an incredible deal on a dual core Acer 15.4 widescreen notebook with 2 gigs RAM, CD / DVD burner, Vista home premium, etc all for just $549.
Best Buy, Staples, Wal Mart, and Sams Club are all carrying Dell now also. When I was in Best Buy a few weeks ago they had a very nice Delll notebook for $549.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-01-2008, 05:18 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
Should I just bite the dust and go with a Vista and learn it? Is it going to be the thing of the future?
I have a Family Tree Maker and Photoshop that needs to be compatible with it. Any way to find out if it is?
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
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Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
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07-01-2008, 05:25 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by CC1
Esther,
When I went to work for the company I am empoyed by now I gave up my nice office with the big executive desk and credenza I had bought for it along with my nice desktop computer.
All of a sudden I was having to use a laptop on a daily basis. I was so frustrated with the smaller keyboard and lack of mouse and keypad that for the first six months or year I carried around a full size keyboard and mouse.
I would plug them in whenever I got to where I was gong. It must have been a funny sight me waking in the office with my laptop in its caee and my full size keyboard and mouse under my arm.
However I discovered that like most new things in life you can learn them and they do become second nature. For about four years now I switch back and forth throughout the day from my personal desktop to my work laptop or personal laptop and don't miss a beat. Once you get used to it a notebook keyboard is just fine. The key is to give it time.
As far as brands go I recommend Dell but also like Toshiba and Acer. Acer has been coming on strong in the market. A few weeks ago I know that Circuit City had an incredible deal on a dual core Acer 15.4 widescreen notebook with 2 gigs RAM, CD / DVD burner, Vista home premium, etc all for just $549.
Best Buy, Staples, Wal Mart, and Sams Club are all carrying Dell now also. When I was in Best Buy a few weeks ago they had a very nice Delll notebook for $549.
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Thanks CC1.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
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Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
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07-01-2008, 05:40 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
Esther,
I would not get XP because it is the older operating system and eventually will not have support from Microsoft.
VISTA isn't perfect but it is not some horrible system either. It is very similar to XP so you won't have much of a learning curve.
VISTA does eat up a lot of RAM so you need to get at least 2 gigs of RAM memory with your computer and I would get one with VISTA home premium rather than VISTA basic. I have computers with both and premium is much better.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-01-2008, 06:17 PM
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by Esther
Should I just bite the dust and go with a Vista and learn it? Is it going to be the thing of the future?
I have a Family Tree Maker and Photoshop that needs to be compatible with it. Any way to find out if it is?
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Vista is not a terrible OS. It probably will work with PS just fine depending on how old it is.
But if you really want XP find a company that will sell you a laptop without any software and then buy xp
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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07-01-2008, 06:18 PM
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Go Dodgers!
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Re: LapTop Suggestions?
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Originally Posted by CC1
Esther,
I would not get XP because it is the older operating system and eventually will not have support from Microsoft.
VISTA isn't perfect but it is not some horrible system either. It is very similar to XP so you won't have much of a learning curve.
VISTA does eat up a lot of RAM so you need to get at least 2 gigs of RAM memory with your computer and I would get one with VISTA home premium rather than VISTA basic. I have computers with both and premium is much better.
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Depending on what you are doing with XP you need at least 2 gigs too. My vista has 2 but I really want 3
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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