[thechat] Suggestions?

[Elfur Logadóttir]

Martin's footer woke the giant ...

"Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning"

why are there Swedish words in your greetings, Martin?

What have I been missing, being busy working ... ?

/elfur



On 7 December 2013 10:17, Martin Burns <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:

> I'd agree with that (although I'm ex-IBM now). In 10 years constantly on
> the move with them, I never had a hardware related problem on a Thinkpad.
> Unless you're keen on a Mac, I'd recommend Lenovo every time.
>
> But yes, as always, wipe the vendor installed crap as soon as possible &
> replace with a clean Win/Linux image.
>
>
> Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
> Martin Burns
> ___
>
> "If you are very strong, you also have to be very nice" - Pippi Långstrump
>
> > On 6 Dec 2013, at 18:02, erik mattheis <shockingelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > After a lot of research and a budget of $2.5k or less last November, I
> > ended up with a Lenovo W530. I think it was $2.3k all told, including an
> > employee discount which is easy to find if you know someone who knows
> > someone who knows someone who works for IBM. My priorities were a great
> > screen, durability and better than average graphics card. I'm very happy
> > with my decision.
> >
> > Were I to do it again, I'd have done a clean Windows install as soon as I
> > got it as the vendor software has gotten in the way a few times. I was
> also
> > disappointed that it took over two weeks to get it when the shipping
> > estimate was 1 week. But overall, it was a good decision.
> >> On Dec 6, 2013 11:39 AM, "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Gang,
> >>
> >> My home machine finally gave up the ghost this week.  She had been
> limping
> >> along for quite some time ... the sound card quit a long time back ...
> bsod
> >> once every month or two.  But now the hard drive boot seems to have gone
> >> completely pear-shaped ... soooo ... she's pretty much dead in the
> water.
> >>
> >> I have managed to wrangle a nice newish workstation.   (No no.  Really.
> >> She is one VERY sweet gizmo!  Shiny too!)   However ... she has a few
> ...
> >> "issues"; namely:
> >>        * She's a 'desktop' form factor, while everything else in the
> >> house (with the exception of my recently departed machine) is a laptop.
> >>        * She has no operating system whatsoever.
> >>        * Her BIOS is, most unfortunately, set up so that she can *only*
> >> boot from the hard drive.  You cannae point her to boot from CD-Rom or
> USB.
> >>        ;-(
> >>
> >> But hey!   Other than all that, she really is a crackerbox of a machine!
> >>
> >> <scratches head />
> >>
> >> Ummm, suggestions please?
> >>
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >>
> >> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her
> >> "go" and do stuff!
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> RonL.
> >>
> >> (So far the best suggestions have been --- "Why don't you go outside and
> >> have a nice run instead?" and "You know you really should spend more
> time
> >> playing your guitars!" --- which, while most encouraging, don't help me
> >> check FB or watch cute hedgehog videos.)
> >>
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