![]() ![]() I’ll be awaiting the new UEFI, (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Bios’ replacement, to see if it takes off in 2011 before deciding on doing another build. I build my own computers too and prefer to choose all my components. But I can check mail at a friends, the library or any thing else with a browser. Which is problematic when it goes down, which has happened on more than one occasion. My biggest use of the cloud is using Gmail for all my email. Then there’s the issue of whether to trust the cloud or not. Graffiti isn’t it, it’s still too steep of a learning curve for most people.Īll I really expect my laptop to do is browse the Internet, and if I need to do anything much more strenuous, I just need to be able to connect to my desktop with RDP and still do what I want on my laptop. I’m a Palm III and TX user (my wife convinced me to upgrade after she’d been using her TX for years, and they would most likely be disappearing after Web OS was announced…) and am proficient with it. Getting something that runs Android just so that I can use Graffiti sounds better to me. I’m using a Garmin Nuviphone now, and I’ve had it with it’s pitiful on screen keyboard. Capricious, and I really don’t want anybody telling me what I can or can’t run on my hardware. The walled garden otherwise known as Apple turns me off. So I’m probably not even looking at a new one next year, but 2012 at the earliest. ![]() I expect to have USB 3, SATA 3 (to go with the SSD that I’ll probably be booting off of), and possibly even PCI 3.0. My next desktop will be at least a Sandy Bridge. And I’m already doing good to keep under the 250GB cap that Comcast has, so upgrading the speed on that is worthless. I’ve been pounding the trackball or one like it for over 15 years know, and Microsoft curved keyboards for even longer. I would use the same keyboard, a Microsoft 4000 (already on the fourth iteration with it, the cats can’t seem to be able to avoid throwing up on them!) and the same trackball, a Microsoft Trackball Explorer (selling for more used on Ebay than they were available new…). I had no idea that 256 megs would be considered too small for running them three years ago, but then they weren’t something that was on the horizon anyway.Ī new computer would be using those same monitors. The only thing I’m even remotely thinking about upgrading is my video card, and that’s only so that I can run the programs on it. The 20″ CRT crapped out two years ago, so now I’ve got a 20″ 1600×1200 screen, and another smaller screen has become my second monitor. Then again, I’ve upgraded it to six gigs of memory, and 3 TB of disk space. My Quad core system is a bit old, three years old. ![]() I build my own computers, getting exactly what I want. ![]()
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