Re: laptops?

Steve Firth wrote:
> Jill. <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> all ideas would be gratefully received
>
> Well, surely the cost of the laptop is irrelevant? The software
> usually costs about 2-4 times the price of the computer, especially
> for the full big-boy load you have specified.

but I have all of the software already

>
> If you're genuinely on a very, very tight budget and you don't already
> have the software and you have reasonable technical ability then you
> *could* install Linux and a free Office suite and that would do
> everythign you ask. And the software would cost you something fairly
> reasonable.
>
> OTOH Linux on a laptop can be a miserable experience.

And is a learning experience I will take on at some point but not just yet
:~))

>
> If you already have software and don't mind an older generation laptop
> it's possible to get things like reconditioned IBM Thinkpads for very
> reasonable prices.

Thanks-- I had a good look -- the shortage of reliable hands on assistance
in my locality made me rather shy of these as doing lots of online checking
of folks experiences it seemed that there can be niggles that need a bit of
tweaking more often. Not a problem for most folks but our remoteness does
make that sort of thing more of a challenge at times. Its where we are
sometimes caught in the middle -- many island communities have some wizard
techie folks but the out of the way mainland places in theory can get to the
big cities so we do less well for clever bods.
Probably cos they can go where there is better pay :~)) The best tend to be
in related jobs because the economics of self employment here just don't
work.

thank you for your thoughts -- very useful -- I will get around to Linux
sometime

--

regards
Jill Bowis

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