Can you elaborate on your resistance to HP and Lenovo? The last few Lenovos that I have had the opportunity to work with have been slick units.
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:02 AM Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
SSDs make a lot of sense for speed, weight and less noise and if everything's on the network or the internet, 128 Gb SSD is just as good as a 1TB HDD.
Thanks Ted.
"Everything's on the network or the internet" seems to be a common assumption and is apparently the reason why it's pretty hard to find larger HDDs on laptops that also have the other stuff I want. Weight seems to be a major consideration for marketers, but it isn't for me. We do not keep stuff on the network or the internet here, with some exceptions.
Windows 10 now requires 32 GB of space for itself (build "1903"). That means you need 64 GB in order to cope with the download/installation/cleanup process for those eventual feature "upgrades" that we, as mere pawns in MS's marketing game, are no longer allowed to ignore. And some people have been speculating that the OS space is likely to double to 64 GB in the near future. That would mean a 128 GB HDD would have no room left at all for anything else.
So modernity expects a person like me to be happy with 256 GB. But I've always been a fan of over-provisioning because the unpredictable and the unexpected is an everyday thing in my life.
Ken
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A plug for a new MacBook Pro running Windows in a VM. My MacBook Pro is 6 years old and looks and performs like new. Best purchase I ever made. A shout-out to Ed and others for making this recommendation many years ago.
Malcolm
I'd have agreed with you a couple of years ago but my new MBP is not where near the versatile machine that my older one is. The MBPs are resigning you to a life of carrying dongles with you to connect to whatever you might encounter.
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:55 PM Malcolm Greene profox@bdurham.com wrote:
A plug for a new MacBook Pro running Windows in a VM. My MacBook Pro is 6 years old and looks and performs like new. Best purchase I ever made. A shout-out to Ed and others for making this recommendation many years ago.
Malcolm
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A plug for a new MacBook Pro running Windows in a VM. My MacBook Pro is 6 years old and looks and performs like new. Best purchase I ever made. A shout-out to Ed and others for making this recommendation many years ago.
Is that a user-friendly thing? As in, the user should be able to start it up and never have to take any extra steps to get to a Windows desktop beyond what s/he would do if it was running Windows natively. These machines are for field workers who don't know, or care, anything about computers as a thing in themselves.
But we also have to maintain these devices, and nobody on my staff has any significant Mac maintenance experience, so it might not be a prudent option for us anyway.
Thanks.
Ken
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