My friend got my system up and going, said he had to replace the motherboard. He made it seem like that's not a common failure, but said everything else seems fine. I'm going to take this event as a sign that I'm on borrowed time with this old unit, and this machine needs to become part of my contingency plan, but I now have more time to shop and figure out my next setup.
Computer nerds, give me some advice.
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Nice setup much like mine, although my screens aren't quite as big. How do you like the curved display? I found that they make me dizzy!
Get a nice desktop and use the laptop when you need to travel.
I have considered that. Any idea how I would go about having them sync files automatically, or at least easily? If I could set up this laptop to auto sync on a schedule it could also act like a secondary hard drive and I wouldn't have to rely on remembering to back up my standalone unit as much.
I like it for consumption rather than work. The L/R are hooked up to my work laptop
The Top(curved) is attached to my IPad and that’s the small screen on the bottom. It’s great for news/music/email. I’m working to keep a better separation between personal/work computers.
The curved is also great for the gym hooked up to a streaming stick.
Not worth the effort, get a nice laptop like the one I linked, a dock for $150 and a pair of large monitors for $230
And you’re at your 1500 budget
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/d...-adjust-monitor-bundle-dual-527sh-monitor-kit
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-usb-c-dock-g5-p-5tw10aa-aba-1
Interesting - they were the "in thing" a couple of years before I retired, several co-workers got them with end of year money. They gave me vertigo - probably something to do with my typically nerd coke bottom glasses. *shrug*
Now we know why you hate cell phones so much ! you can't see them......
I would probably suggest a curved monitor if you are getting monitors over a certain size. Where the threshold is exactly I don't know, but my 27" flatty I use for work, it's obvious the size would be better as a curved. You're either centered on it, and the edges feel far away, or you focus on one side and the other side feels too far.
I don't experience any of that "too far awayness" with my 32" curved.
I don't experience any of that "too far awayness" with my 32" curved.
I thought I made that abundantly clear - they're too damn small to do anything "real" with them.
What I did was get a Microsoft 360 account, it gives me 1TB of cloud storage that is accessible from any computer I log into as well as my PHOOOOONE... as long as I can read it.
Google has a similar set up, google drive.
Both can be set up to look like another drive on the computer so you don't need to log in continually to see files.
be careful with AMD processors. Most software you want to run works on both, but you can accidentally made a big compromise if you arent explicit about what software you need to run. If they have everything you need, then by all means, go for it.
Services like one drive (if you use excel, word), google drive (if you prefer sheets/notes) work well. Alternatives can be dropbox, sharefile if you need enterprise-y type capabilities or icloud if you are an apple guy. Based on the above, Id assume not an apple guy and something like one drive would work the easiest.
Note - you should prefer automatic sync. Pretty much every service will do this for you out of the box.
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very large computer nerd
Well, Mr Very Large Computer Nerd, I have questions, but I feel like a 4-year-old trying to form them into a sentence. Hell, I'm not even sure if I know what I'm asking.
I do use Excel to log work, but that's a manual operation and not linked to my work software, and other than that I really haven't explored anything else included with my Microsoft sub. My work software is proprietary (I think that's an accurate statement) and writes encrypted, compressed files viewable only with this software. My license agreement allows me to install onto multiple machines, so that's no problem, but the files are written to and stored on my current laptop only until I manually back them up to an external HD, which I really need to do weekly, but that usually winds up being every few months.
I think the problem(s) that I want/need to solve is 1) regular, preferably automatic backup of my hard drive, or at least the important files/folders (pictures/videos/life docs/work docs) I'd prefer that be secure local and not "cloud" storage, and 2) if I run a desktop I'd need the laptop to auto sync at minimum two work folders, which last year (a little below average) produced 2-3 GB of data.
I legally have to maintain and protect work files for a minimum of 5 years, but I generally only need regular access to the last 4-6 weeks of work. Outside of that, they can wait.
If you can give me some ideas or a better understanding, I'll bug my buddy to see what we can figure out.
Well, Mr Very Large Computer Nerd, I have questions, but I feel like a 4-year-old trying to form them into a sentence. Hell, I'm not even sure if I know what I'm asking.
I do use Excel to log work, but that's a manual operation and not linked to my work software, and other than that I really haven't explored anything else included with my Microsoft sub. My work software is proprietary (I think that's an accurate statement) and writes encrypted, compressed files viewable only with this software. My license agreement allows me to install onto multiple machines, so that's no problem, but the files are written to and stored on my current laptop only until I manually back them up to an external HD, which I really need to do weekly, but that usually winds up being every few months.
I think the problem(s) that I want/need to solve is 1) regular, preferably automatic backup of my hard drive, or at least the important files/folders (pictures/videos/life docs/work docs) I'd prefer that be secure local and not "cloud" storage, and 2) if I run a desktop I'd need the laptop to auto sync at minimum two work folders, which last year (a little below average) produced 2-3 GB of data.
I legally have to maintain and protect work files for a minimum of 5 years, but I generally only need regular access to the last 4-6 weeks of work. Outside of that, they can wait.
If you can give me some ideas or a better understanding, I'll bug my buddy to see what we can figure out.
Happy to help.
The biggest consideration here is how important syncing to local drive is vs a cloud solution? A cloud solution can be encrypted and secure. Cloud approach would make solving this problem easier and more reliable.
If you are insistent on local drives then lets talk through some approaches there next. Those will mean more of a setup (on both devices) and more complexity. Some complexity comes from how does the laptop access the storage when its taken outside of the network (usually the house). Your home network is not publicly accessible, so the laptop would access the files just like the desktop does, but the second its away from that location wed have a problem.
That problem can be solved but it just adds complexity.
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