Windows 11: A gigantic UX / UI nightmare meant to shovel more ads into your face and track you for the pleasure.

• 1. Mac OS: Erm... It actually works well? Besides all of the tracking baked in, it does quite a bit decently.
  
  2. Windows 10: I tend to install pretty weird Russian / Chinese developed programs to say batch convert PDFs to PNG and then convert the formatting to Latex. When being used in full force, a Windows 10 install tends to meltdown after six months for me.
  
  3. Windows 11: A gigantic UX / UI nightmare meant to shovel more ads into your face and track you for the pleasure.
  
  4. Linux: stays out of my way, am able to actually troubeshoot deep system issues fairly quickly, but games are either hit or miss via Crossover and specific use software such as Q-Dir just isn't compatible.

(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:09 pm Fourthing (sic?) CostCo / a good warranty from a seller on eBay.

What is with the MacOS hesitation? The M series even if a used model tends to have 15+ hours of battery life. Plus Windows 11 is a UX / Webdev trash fire that will engulf the entire industry.

/me tends to run Linux anyway.

(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:09 pm What is with the MacOS hesitation?

AArdvark wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 4:29 pm Did you take all the HP software out? I think it was Dell's custom crapware that was fighting against Windows in my Inspiron laptop, making everything slow slow slow.

Jizaboz wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 1:35 am

Casual Observer wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 4:49 am I've grown accustomed to a touch screen and 1.5TB drive so let's squeeze a little more outa her.

Sometime I'll get around to trying to find an affordable monitor that accepts touch-screen input. Really want to be able to properly emulate Japanese rhythm games that use taps and gestures directly on the screen.

Casual Observer wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 4:49 am I've grown accustomed to a touch screen and 1.5TB drive so let's squeeze a little more outa her.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 5:40 am And you can enjoy a nice hot dog afterwards.

Casual Observer wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 7:26 pmSGIN laptop is some kind of cheap Chinese brand I found on Amazon, liked the specs and price but it probably spies.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 6:42 pm Great question. One of my sister-in-laws was using a $300 Windows laptop that I bought my father before he passed, but the screen went out on it, so I wanted to get her a new one because it was her birthday. And I didn't get her anything. YET. Yet. AOL Keyword was YET.

She is OK with Mac's OS, so you know what, I have been on eBay for so long, I got her a refurbished one there. For $500 I got a better computer, pound for pound, than I could have gotten with the horror show that is Windows 11. All I hear about W11 is them throwing ads at people, so they can fuck off, I was happy to just get her what she wants through eBay, where there is a one year warranty and they take refunds and stand by it and yadda yadda.

SO this does not help you, because you don't want to go into MAC land.

What is a SGIN computer?

To actually answer your question, I would still go through Newegg, because I am GenX and that brand used to mean something. Or Alienware.