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On 10/1/2014 11:04 PM, John Doe wrote:
Ron wrote: John Doe wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: "Don Phillipson" wrote: All local indicators suggest laptops far outsell desktops nowadays (not to mention also tablets.) Leaving aside tablets, which are very different from desktops or laptops, if laptops outsell desktops, I think it's crazy. As far as I'm concerned, almost the only situation when a laptop should be used instead of a desktop is when traveling, because it's smaller and lighter, and therefore easier to carry. In all other respects, a laptop is inferior to a desktop: Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop. When I consider games for my tablet, that's comes to mind. Chess might be fun, but it's going to suck the battery dry. I have a feeling that's why the maker of X-Plane abandoned its attempt on the tablet, flight simulation is power-hungry. That goes for lots of games. It's going to be decades before battery technology is up to the task. But tablets are a lot of fun anyway. What do you mean by "power"? Computing power? If so that's not true. You should not have snipped so much of my post since you are confused. I don't want to have to explain everything over and over again. You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power. Part of it depends on how much portability you need and how many times you want to cycle the battery during a day. You will notice that the most intense and enjoyable games are not on tablets. I'm talking about mainstream games. Any gamer knows what I'm talking about... Like $200+ video card gaming. Like gaming systems that require 500+ W power supplies. Tablets are cool but they can't do miracles. Like I said, it will be decades before battery power will allow them to do the tricks that a desktop personal computer can do. I'm not confused. Your post wasn't clear The poster before you was speaking about laptops and then you said, "Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop." *If you are going to use a computer for portability* Portability http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portability\ I never said a word about tablets. I'm talking about laptops which are just as powerful as desktops. They are *portable*, and you can plug them into an electrical outlet. Here...I saved you the trouble. Path: not-for-mail From: Ron User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: Next version of Windows is... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:34:52 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Bytes: 1898 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:34:24 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 1879 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3908934872 |
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"I'm talking about laptops which are just as powerful as desktops."
You are confused. I started this thread branch. I am talking about portable (including ultraportable) personal computers. The more portable, the less power. It's a fact of computing. -- Ron bigelile05 msn.com wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01 .blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx19.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ron bigelile05 msn.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: Next version of Windows is... References: m0ep5f$en4$1 nocheese.eternal-september.org m0eqnl$od7$1 dont-email.me m0fhi1$3nb$2 news.albasani.net m0fncp$sqs$1 dont-email.me m0gvou$lpb$4 news.albasani.net rhko2at33ma2l696hh2dndokarssko8sf1 4ax.com m0hulq$q6d$1 dont-email.me 0Z1Xv.393331$UR.191362 fx04.iad m0ifcm$sfn$1 dont-email.me In-Reply-To: m0ifcm$sfn$1 dont-email.me Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 92 Message-ID: eP3Xv.316680$No4.50599 fx19.iad X-Complaints-To: abuse newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:40:58 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:40:30 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 4880 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1624361890 Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.windows7.general:110120 alt.comp.os.windows-8:18918 On 10/1/2014 11:04 PM, John Doe wrote: Ron bigelile05 msn.com wrote: John Doe wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" kblake kb.invalid wrote: "Don Phillipson" e925 SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca wrote: All local indicators suggest laptops far outsell desktops nowadays (not to mention also tablets.) Leaving aside tablets, which are very different from desktops or laptops, if laptops outsell desktops, I think it's crazy. As far as I'm concerned, almost the only situation when a laptop should be used instead of a desktop is when traveling, because it's smaller and lighter, and therefore easier to carry. In all other respects, a laptop is inferior to a desktop: Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop. When I consider games for my tablet, that's comes to mind. Chess might be fun, but it's going to suck the battery dry. I have a feeling that's why the maker of X-Plane abandoned its attempt on the tablet, flight simulation is power-hungry. That goes for lots of games. It's going to be decades before battery technology is up to the task. But tablets are a lot of fun anyway. What do you mean by "power"? Computing power? If so that's not true. You should not have snipped so much of my post since you are confused. I don't want to have to explain everything over and over again. You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power. Part of it depends on how much portability you need and how many times you want to cycle the battery during a day. You will notice that the most intense and enjoyable games are not on tablets. I'm talking about mainstream games. Any gamer knows what I'm talking about... Like $200+ video card gaming. Like gaming systems that require 500+ W power supplies. Tablets are cool but they can't do miracles. Like I said, it will be decades before battery power will allow them to do the tricks that a desktop personal computer can do. I'm not confused. Your post wasn't clear The poster before you was speaking about laptops and then you said, "Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop." *If you are going to use a computer for portability* Portability http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portability\ I never said a word about tablets. I'm talking about laptops which are just as powerful as desktops. They are *portable*, and you can plug them into an electrical outlet. Here...I saved you the trouble. Path: not-for-mail From: Ron bigelile05 msn.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: Next version of Windows is... 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On 10/2/2014 12:00 AM, John Doe wrote:
"I'm talking about laptops which are just as powerful as desktops." You are confused. I started this thread branch. I am talking about portable (including ultraportable) personal computers. The more portable, the less power. It's a fact of computing. Bull****. And you can shove free.usenet...troll. |
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On 10/2/2014 12:37 AM, Ron wrote:
On 10/2/2014 12:00 AM, John Doe wrote: "I'm talking about laptops which are just as powerful as desktops." You are confused. I started this thread branch. I am talking about portable (including ultraportable) personal computers. The more portable, the less power. It's a fact of computing. Bull****. And you can shove free.usenet...troll. free.spirit |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 03:04:54 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote: Ron wrote: John Doe wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: "Don Phillipson" wrote: All local indicators suggest laptops far outsell desktops nowadays (not to mention also tablets.) Leaving aside tablets, which are very different from desktops or laptops, if laptops outsell desktops, I think it's crazy. As far as I'm concerned, almost the only situation when a laptop should be used instead of a desktop is when traveling, because it's smaller and lighter, and therefore easier to carry. In all other respects, a laptop is inferior to a desktop: Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop. When I consider games for my tablet, that's comes to mind. Chess might be fun, but it's going to suck the battery dry. I have a feeling that's why the maker of X-Plane abandoned its attempt on the tablet, flight simulation is power-hungry. That goes for lots of games. It's going to be decades before battery technology is up to the task. But tablets are a lot of fun anyway. What do you mean by "power"? Computing power? If so that's not true. You should not have snipped so much of my post since you are confused. I don't want to have to explain everything over and over again. You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power. I haven't had my headers posted in a couple of days, so allow me to point out that you made up a new definition for the word 'portable'. It doesn't mean what you think it means. You've taken a very small aspect of portability and you've brought it front and center, shoving everything else that makes something portable to the side. Hopefully, it makes sense that others are confused when you make up new meanings for established words. |
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:58:53 -0300, pjp wrote: USB3 and new externals are making that a lot less of an issue. As it is I have 6 more or less pemanently connected to my desktop and two others float around the other pcs in the house. Coukd just as easily be a laptop or one of the other desktops I own but as they're all a slower overall pc it doesn't seem suitable and the network is only 100Mbs. Permanently connected to a desktop is easy. Permanently connected to laptop is much harder if you travel with it at all, or even if you carry it to business meetings as Winston said. I've seen quite a few of these in use with portable devices. Western Digital 'My Passport Ultra' - 1TB drive, usually more HD capacity than an internal portable drive is about the size [l x w] of an index card and only 0.6" in height; the 500 GB model even smaller and less than 5 oz. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On 10/2/2014 12:43 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 03:04:54 +0000 (UTC), John Doe wrote: Ron wrote: John Doe wrote: "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: "Don Phillipson" wrote: All local indicators suggest laptops far outsell desktops nowadays (not to mention also tablets.) Leaving aside tablets, which are very different from desktops or laptops, if laptops outsell desktops, I think it's crazy. As far as I'm concerned, almost the only situation when a laptop should be used instead of a desktop is when traveling, because it's smaller and lighter, and therefore easier to carry. In all other respects, a laptop is inferior to a desktop: Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop. When I consider games for my tablet, that's comes to mind. Chess might be fun, but it's going to suck the battery dry. I have a feeling that's why the maker of X-Plane abandoned its attempt on the tablet, flight simulation is power-hungry. That goes for lots of games. It's going to be decades before battery technology is up to the task. But tablets are a lot of fun anyway. What do you mean by "power"? Computing power? If so that's not true. You should not have snipped so much of my post since you are confused. I don't want to have to explain everything over and over again. You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power. I haven't had my headers posted in a couple of days, so allow me to point out that you made up a new definition for the word 'portable'. It doesn't mean what you think it means. You've taken a very small aspect of portability and you've brought it front and center, shoving everything else that makes something portable to the side. Hopefully, it makes sense that others are confused when you make up new meanings for established words. But you snipped his post!!!!! ruh roh Portable Generator - Line 1 |
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En el artículo , Ron
escribió: I'm not confused. Your post wasn't clear John Duh's rather hard of thinking. Not worth the effort replying to him, since he'll ignore it anyway. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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Ron wrote:
Portable Generator Yeah, if you carry a portable generator with you everywhere you take your portable computer, you won't have to worry about battery power... |
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Char Jackson none none.invalid wrote:
John Doe always.look message.header wrote: Ron bigelile05 msn.com wrote: John Doe wrote: Besides screen size... The fundamental difference is power. If you're going to use a computer for portability, you don't have the power of a desktop. When I consider games for my tablet, that's comes to mind. Chess might be fun, but it's going to suck the battery dry. I have a feeling that's why the maker of X-Plane abandoned its attempt on the tablet, flight simulation is power-hungry. That goes for lots of games. It's going to be decades before battery technology is up to the task. But tablets are a lot of fun anyway. What do you mean by "power"? Computing power? If so that's not true. You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power. others are confused when you make up new meanings for established words. Wrong as usual. I have done exactly that. In fact, I defined advertising's use of the word "save". The way you see it on coupons, magazines, TV, storefronts, everywhere. Merriam-Webster accepted at first. The rest have followed. BY NOW AND SAVE! SAVE $1! SAVE ON SHOES! SAVE 20%! Those (and many more) are covered by my new definition of the established word "save". Sucks to be so wrong, doesn't it? But it is at every opportunity... And, again... Anybody who knows anything about computers knows that desktops are more powerful than laptops. And another no-brainer is that laptops and smaller computers are meant to run off of batteries. Being as someone who much prefers communicating with intelligent people, I really hate having to state the obvious. Idiot troll... -- Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01 .blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx13.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Char Jackson none none.invalid Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: Next version of Windows is... Message-ID: 5qlp2ahdhlghrda2jica1i1h72omnt2s3l 4ax.com References: m0ep5f$en4$1 nocheese.eternal-september.org m0eqnl$od7$1 dont-email.me m0fhi1$3nb$2 news.albasani.net m0fncp$sqs$1 dont-email.me m0gvou$lpb$4 news.albasani.net rhko2at33ma2l696hh2dndokarssko8sf1 4ax.com m0hulq$q6d$1 dont-email.me 0Z1Xv.393331$UR.191362 fx04.iad m0ifcm$sfn$1 dont-email.me X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 50 X-Complaints-To: abuse easynews.com Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:43:40 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 3153 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1664928166 Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.windows7.general:110124 alt.comp.os.windows-8:18922 |
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All insult, no substance, just like a troll...
-- Mike Tomlinson mike jasper.org.uk wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Tomlinson mike jasper.org.uk Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8 Subject: Next version of Windows is... Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 06:09:51 +0100 Organization: The Pub Lines: 12 Message-ID: g5Gr6OJf4NLUFwlK jasper.org.uk References: m0ep5f$en4$1 nocheese.eternal-september.org m0eqnl$od7$1 dont-email.me m0fhi1$3nb$2 news.albasani.net m0fncp$sqs$1 dont-email.me m0gvou$lpb$4 news.albasani.net rhko2at33ma2l696hh2dndokarssko8sf1 4ax.com m0hulq$q6d$1 dont-email.me 0Z1Xv.393331$UR.191362 fx04.iad m0ifcm$sfn$1 dont-email.me eP3Xv.316680$No4.50599 fx19.iad Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="49d58c5a0658a88bd72c775f4988c617"; logging-data="1664"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194OWyM7QRS7n5ucU65I2trNzuG1RtVB 1A=" X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.02 U l7QPibFNYaeMZv1eMeUbt3AWQz Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZE4zI6ubjGvRxjql5ola8HtRD6g= Xref: news.eternal-september.org alt.windows7.general:110127 alt.comp.os.windows-8:18926 En el art¡culo eP3Xv.316680$No4.50599 fx19.iad, Ron bigelile05 msn.com escribi¢: I'm not confused. Your post wasn't clear John Duh's rather hard of thinking. Not worth the effort replying to him, since he'll ignore it anyway. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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On 10/2/2014 1:25 AM, John Doe wrote:
Ron wrote: Portable Generator Yeah, if you carry a portable generator with you everywhere you take your portable computer, you won't have to worry about battery power... That's not the point. You said "You do know what "portability" means? It means you are running off of battery power." |
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On 10/2/2014 1:41 AM, John Doe wrote:
And, again... Anybody who knows anything about computers knows that desktops are more powerful than laptops. That is complete bull****. |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 05:41:59 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote: Anybody who knows anything about computers knows that desktops are more powerful than laptops. I suppose you'll redefine powerful now, just as you did with portable, but for the standard definition of powerful your statement above is rubbish. Some desktops are more powerful than some laptops. The reverse is also true. I'm betting you knew that. And another no-brainer is that laptops and smaller computers are meant to run off of batteries. By "meant to", I assume you meant "capable of", not that I expect you to know the difference. You're really not very good with words. |
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:32:02 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote: What does make sense to me is people who have a laptop plugged into some kind of cradle that gives them a big screen, keyboard and mouse when they're at home. But I don't see many people who do that. I suspect that those are the people who *really* need their computer for business. A laptop will only make sense to you until you drop it, or spill something on its keyboard, or somebody steals it. If you're going to plug a laptop into something at home, the most sensible choice would be a standard desktop PC with which you regularly back up or synchronise your work. Rod. |
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