Love this. Bill Nye and Chromebook. Well I never.
Love the old car /widows OS analogy, falling apart, needing patches and freezing. About right.
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I have a Chromebook, an Ipad Pro and two desktops. I use the Chromebook the most. Of course I do not program with it or run Blender 3D. I recommend them for most things.
dalefvictor
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Aug 13, 2019
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Why don't you just use an Android telephone - it fits in your pocket or do like I do and wear it on your wrist.
FrayedBear
Level 9
Aug 13, 2019
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@David1955 Eyesight, finger size or RAM problem?
@David1955 No David just genuinely curious as to your need for laptop. . . I have about half a dozen sitting rotting from I3 to I7 chips, Windows 2000 through to the one using apps, netbooks running dual MS Windows (have you got half an hour to wait for our boot) and AVLinux that loads in 30 seconds and is a full suite running from hard drive totally loaded into RAM but because I've now found that I can do all I need on the Android smartphone they sit rotting waiting to be again used when I need to burn cd's! About the only used besides boatanchors and portable dvd players that I can think of.
My fingers are stumpy, my eyesight needing bottle bottom lenses but the phone has been my sole used hardware for the last three years.
Admittedly I no longer need spreadsheets or formatted letters needing addressing to thousands from a contact's database - it should however still be achievable as MS Office and Open Office have been ported to the Android.
The Android chips are now fast and RAM is large. Admittedly on board storage through SD card and built in memory is still limited to about 0.35 Gb. but external drives now work just as well as SD cards.
@David1955 I get your point. Five years ago I could not balance on one leg nor use a tablet. Now I can do the first very well even with a recent prosthetic knee, the second has bounced off smartphone use which has remained my preferred vehicle as I'm a one finger typist or dictation user and although needing bottle bottom lenses my vision at five inches is perfect - a 6" screen occupies about 30% of field of vision.
@David1955 is this the type of DEX that you refer to? -
[play.google.com]
@David1955 Have you installed all that is needed to run the Open Office suite onto a tablet or smartphone and then played with it?
You may be surprised as to what you have. Watch the video at
[play.google.com]
@David1955 I will explore the app on in your lifewire video on my S8+ or Tab A. Thanks for that.
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