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Re: Tablet 10''+ vs laptop

#21 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:19 pm

RiS, no that was just a figure from the air. If over X years you will have paid an amount of money equal to the cost of a purchased program.
At this point you can carry on using the program you bought but if you subscribe to the cloud version you keep paying.
However at any point the cloud version will be the latest update whereas your paid for version will be X years old and getting older.

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#22 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:22 pm

Maybe we should start a conversation about free vs paid programs.

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#23 Post by jimtherev » Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:41 pm

If anyone's interested, IJT Direct seem to be a Morgans sibling: often the core stock is identical; current website for both companies lists over a dozen tablets.

Incidentally, one can still buy MS Office outright - no subs. Can be much more expensive than Office 365, though.

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#24 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:44 am

Jim. That's the point I was making, the break even point.

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#25 Post by ian16th » Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:47 am

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#26 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:12 am

I had started a conversation about it here.

Recent discussion with a friend did touch the issue recently: Apache office was named as the best office program for the time being.

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#27 Post by jimtherev » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:16 pm

I have a copy of Apache which I use sometimes... on odd occasions it will open files MS Office doesn't like.
However, can't switch to OO entirely - no equivalent to MS 'Publisher' in the package, and I use publisher quite a bit.

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#28 Post by ian16th » Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:41 pm

jimtherev wrote:
Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:16 pm
I have a copy of Apache which I use sometimes... on odd occasions it will open files MS Office doesn't like.
However, can't switch to OO entirely - no equivalent to MS 'Publisher' in the package, and I use publisher quite a bit.
The biggest criticism of it.

I used Publisher for Newsletters.
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#29 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Oct 11, 2021 4:43 am

Back to the topic.

I did get back a five year old Android tablet I lent to a friend with its associated case with a keyboard. It has some issues with starting it stops somewhere along the procedure and needs to be charged and the browser some times take ages to respond. I used it yesterday for most browsing I do and it worked ok not very uncomfortable. Happy overall although I am not sure if it can do everything I need.

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#30 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:08 am

I guess the Tablet is more like MS 3.1 with one program at a time.

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#31 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:03 am

Thanks for poiinting out the inability to run more that one program. It is useful sometimes

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#32 Post by Woody » Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:15 am

Sums up my IT knowledge :((

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#33 Post by 4mastacker » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:07 pm

It appears Mrs 4ma's i-Pad is in terminal decline - it's rapidly losing battery charge, it gets very warm around the front button, it's not connecting with the e-mail server, all the e-mails have vanished and when we try to get the home page screen all we get is some feckn voice asking if they can help even though Siri is disabled. Never a bloody teenager around when you want one!! Mrs 4ma has suggested a new i-Pad would be a nice Xmas present.
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#34 Post by OFSO » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:20 pm

Why an i pad? My Huawei Media Pad from Morgan electronics cost £89 last year, massive storage and battery, superb screen, and is in use for roughly four hours every day, mostly for watching TV. But then I confess hell would freeze over before I ever bought anything from Apple!

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#35 Post by OFSO » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:22 pm

Woody, that was a code PBSAK in the Helpdesk Log.

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#36 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:29 pm

Mrs PN's IPad is about 10 and although I bought it I refused to understand it. Now it too is on terminal decline
Last November (note the data) I bought her a 10 inch Kindle Fire. Lighter than her IPad, does most things well, I understand it, and it waz around £75 with offers.

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#37 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:09 am

Funny things, iPads. My Mini is about 7 years old, and needs charging every day, tho' I doubt it even gets an hours use. Yesterday, when I got the "less than 10% charge" warning I plugged it in and for the first time ever got a "Not Charging" note. Naturally I pulled and pushed every available connection, to no avail, but ... during this process I noticed that the charge had increased to 12%, so left the cable connected and a couple of hours later I had the full 100 % charge again, still with the "Not Charging" note. Today, back to normal. Nothing I did, and no passing three year old to ask advice from, so wonder what will happen next ?

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#38 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:58 pm

As Ex-Ascot announced on TRABB earlier, my laptop computer has been pronounced dead. :((

I am contemplating replacing it with a Samsung tablet. Any suggestions as to wbich one....of course subject to availability. :D
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#39 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:09 pm

Can't you get the NRs to make you one from old clocks?

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Re: Tablet 10''+ vs laptop

#40 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:16 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Fri Oct 15, 2021 2:09 pm
Can't you get the NRs to make you one from old clocks?
I wish =))
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