ron74887 wrote:Dell, I am going thru the same exact thing-- a coonass and an arky trying to get into to computer century!!!!!!
the one thing I have found out is the touch pad has way to many touch points. the clock pops up cause you are touching the right side of the touch pad and moving inboard- wait til you have completed an entire report and touch it in the wrong place and swoosh it disappears to God knows where!!!!!
and the number pad on the right puts that touchpad right in the palm (thumb joint) area of your hands and causes all that crap. (touching it somewhere when you move to type) i move my hands the other day and had 5 -6 old things open up on the top of the screen that i lost -still don't know how or where the hell they are??
You can't even put a note pad down to stop it. It will activate the touch pad too. It is hell trying to type and keep your thumb joint off the pad. It all happens by accident and someone told me I could adjust the sensitivity of the pad but since I don't know S--- i have not found that place. My son ordered me one with swipe log in (it reads my index finger instead of a password) really something this coonass needed. also for info you can open up to 4 screens at the same time and switch between them to work. if you figure that out it would be helpful doing estimates look at cost and then type that into and outgoing email/letter. I am not sure I like it and he told me I could have his Mac cause he told me it would drive me up the wall. One thing he is going to do for me is get me cables to hook up my desktop screen and keyboard so somehow I can keep this thing closed and use what I think I know
I know for sure it will do way more than I will ever need it to do --plain old self correcting typewriter would do! Ron
I've been playing with this thing all weekend, and I finally figured out (by accident
) that the far right side of the mouse pad was causing many of my problems. I think I hate it. No, I'm sure I hate it. I'm thinking Doc Holliday, "I'm your huckleberry?"
Problem is, after that wild crazy man destroyed my Windows 7 lap top monitor
, I was blessed to have given to me a NOS desk top PC with Windows Vista
(it was a bittersweet gift). It just doesn't work with many of the vendor websites I frequent. Such as ordering parts and hardware. It is incompatible with a lot of what I do, so here I am trying to make this mistake work. Really, money is not a concern at this point; never was, I just want something that works. If I can't make this POC work then I'm all for trying MAC. I like my iPhone. Always have.
So what advice would you guys give me in my shopping for a new tool? I know some may ask what my purpose for a computer is, so I'll explain best I can................
1) I don't do facebook or any other social media
2) I have never posted a youtube, although I have watch some posted here and on other sites. It's not my thing, but me and the kids have been caught red handed watching old footage of Red Skelton
3) All of my "Favorites" are business related. I have a couple favorites that are agriculture related, but that's it.
4) I have a photobucket account, but I only use it so I can post pictures on 2 websites that are ag related (pics of my cattle and forage)
I think my needs are pretty simple, so I only need a simple computer. But I need a lot of "storage capacity". I think they call that GB's. I take a lot of pictures at the hangar for my needs and those of my customers. I cache these pictures and 337's and log entries so that I can retrieve them and reference them at a later date, sometimes a much later date. I had a person call me a few days ago needing a lost 337 form (from 2006). I found it in my paper file and sent a copy to him, but it would be easier to send via email. Problem was, back then I cached my data on floppy disc. Who knew? I even just bought an external floppy drive so I could transfer historical data to this new computer. That has been a challenge. It seems something amiss, I'm pizzed