It's with a certain degree of sadness that I've just shut down my old Lenovo laptop for the last time.
Retiring to the knackers yard of tech, this laptop, my fifth, has served me well for 10 years as the main writing console for the blog, my last three books and my ebaying up till about this Spring when it started playing up.
Held together with gaffer tape and sporting the soon-to-be redundant Windows 10, it began failing to connect to the internet around April this year, the start of its swan song really.
I had to switch to doing everything on my mobile phone, everything except creating books on Blurb, which remained the sole activity I still did, albeit a huge struggle, on my old Lenovo.
Today I cut the cord completely and transfered photos, documents, everything from my dying laptop to an external hard drive, ready for the arrival of a brand new laptop, with Windows 11, this evening.
Yes, a new dawn of fresh computing begins at Moonbase and after some editing on the new machine, there'll soon be news of a new publication by Bill and myself.
Have you got a new computer, laptop or iPad readers? Or is it old? Or do you just use your phone?
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I believe a cell phone is just that, a phone. When my Nokia was no longer supported I switched to a flip phone, do not text or email or photograph on it.
ReplyDeleteFor all else I use a MacBook Pro. You are lucky your laptop stayed usable for so long as five years seems to be the age at which Macs no longer stay connected to the internet with built in obsolescence of the operating system.
I have one that is physically falling to bits. It runs Windows Vista! It does not connect to the Internet at all. I use it to edit photos and print a document once in a while. I use my phone for most Internet things (only fun things, never serious), I try to be as analogue as possible, it is a battle sometimes but I'm starting to like being awkward about things!
ReplyDeleteMy current HP desktop model is around seven years old, and runs Windows 10. I do not want to change to 11.
ReplyDeleteMy cellphone is a very basic model, used only for calls and texts. I can not imagine trying to do any serious work on it. I prefer my big desktop, with normal-sized keys and a proper keyboard.
I have an ipad Air and a small iphone 12, which I use principally for photography and photo editing and blogging. Im in the fortunate position of working in a University, which has cutting edge tech at my disposal. The campus has recently gone over to Windows 11 - but for the life of me I cant see any benefit (or difference) from 10 or even Vista! The only major annoyance is its reliance and insistance on Copilot, which is the latest intrusion of AI, which falls over itself to help with everything apart from turning the damn thing off. The only good thing about the pc suite is that they give me access to the full Adobe Creative Suite, which is a stupidly expensive cloud based set of software, including Photoshop and Lightroom. But aside from using these, I do everything else on my phone. Bill
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