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Buying A Laptop
On 24/09/2015 00:45, Ken1943 wrote:
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:39:59 -0700, Old Guy wrote: I found a laptop I can afford and it has Win 8.1 but no touch-screen. So how important is a touch-screen. How similar to Win 7 is Win 8.1 ? I can deal with Win 7 OK but not sure about Win 8.1 ? -- If you get a program like Start8 or one of the freeware ones, you can make the start menu look and act like Windows 7. I have never used the 8/8.1or 10 "start" menu. And the answer to the question "How important is a touch screen?" is "Not important at all, in fact totally unnecessary". Unless you are used to eating with your fingers like an Arab, running your fingers over the screen is only useful in a mobile phone, not on a laptop. You will also spare yourself a lot of screenwipes and messy smudge marks. |
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Buying A Laptop
In message , Char Jackson
writes On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:39:59 -0700, Old Guy wrote: I found a laptop I can afford and it has Win 8.1 but no touch-screen. So how important is a touch-screen. I know you asked about a touch screen, (I don't think it's important on a laptop at all), but IMO it's much more important to get a laptop with a lighted keyboard. In my case, that's one of those features that, once you've used it, you wonder how you got along without it. I'm exaggerating, but only a little. I think backlit keyboards can be really useful, but Lenovo's little lights that beam down from the top of the screen slightly less so. However, I do think the convertible tablet laptops with touch and accurate pen can be excellent for certain uses. You can just use tablet mode in the dark. Unfortunately, the general purpose software for these hasn't been developed enough. I am not referring to the tablets with attachable keyboards which generally have all the weight in the screen, which is not satisfactory. I'm not rich enough to have tried any of the current generation laptop convertibles. -- Bill |
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Buying A Laptop
Keith Nuttle écrivait news:mtvcv9$abr$1
@speranza.aioe.org: On 9/23/2015 6:39 PM, Old Guy wrote: I found a laptop I can afford and it has Win 8.1 but no touch-screen. So how important is a touch-screen. How similar to Win 7 is Win 8.1 ? I can deal with Win 7 OK but not sure about Win 8.1 ? With out any third party software you can make Windows 8.1 look and feel like a evolution of previous versions of Windows. There are things you must do immediately after install. 1 Set Windows to boot to the desktop in the Desktop taskbar properties. 2 There is a setting so that the charms menus do not pop up. I found it early on and changed it If you are interested I can find the setting but am unsure of where it is now. 3 Make sure the Desktop taskbar Property are set to save recently used programs and files in the Jumplist After these are correct, I have found that every thing I want to do to the computer can be accessed by right clicking the MS Icon on the left end of the Desktop taskbar. Two things that can not be done from the MS Icon that could be done in the old Start are the view the installed programs. I have found that I like the Windows 8.1 Start menu with the icons as it is easy to read and can be organized so all your common programs are in one place. All installed programs can be found from the Apps menu (down arrow on the start menu). All programs can be added to or removed from the Windows 8.1 Start menu or the Desktop taskbar. The other thing is that is not available in the MS Icon is the recently used programs. I find the Jumplist (Right click on the program icon on the Desktop toolbar) an excellent replacement for the same function in the old start menu. If you start using the MS Icon and the jumplist you will find you don't need third party start buttons to make Windows 8.1 useable. The jumplist is a disappointment in Windows 10. While the program jumplist are still there, they have remove the recently opened folders fo the jumplist of Fill Explorer. I got quite fond of it in Windows 8.1. To have an old style "Start Menu", right-click on the taskbar, choose "New Toolbar" when the "Open" dialog box opens point to this folder: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu It will put the new toolbar at the right side of the taskbar and the behavior reminds me of the Windows ME Start menu. |
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Buying A Laptop
Keith Nuttle écrivait news:mtvcv9$abr$1
@speranza.aioe.org: 8.1. Ooops, I've just realised the date of the post. :-D |
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