tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post8163013629339863828..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Waxing anorakish about new toys # 1Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-77577726902260685502013-01-18T13:22:42.780+01:002013-01-18T13:22:42.780+01:00Interesting, Lucy.
I am at present fighting my wa...Interesting, Lucy.<br /><br />I am at present fighting my way through the thickets of lap tops, note books, etc. since considering whether to change from my desktop PC.<br />I use Windows "Paintshop Pro" extensively rather than Photoshop and also Quark Express, so not sure your baby would be suitable for me. You certainly seem very enthusiastic about it and I will be interested to read your future postings about it.Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-56166475342161396672013-01-18T12:33:28.507+01:002013-01-18T12:33:28.507+01:00Is a sequitur the oppposite of a non-sequitur? If ...Is a sequitur the oppposite of a non-sequitur? If so, here are some.<br /><br />The Ilyama is a monster (47 x 25 cm), high quality monitor, part of which is visible on my blog heading pic. I bought it as a DTP aid when I was editing a community magazine (ie, properly printed) in Quark Express and needed it for ultimate niceties of layout. Also full-page layout comparisons. <br /><br />I mentioned the plug-in DVD drive just in case you ever wanted to download from a disk or send someone a whole host of pix that would be too much for an e-mail attachment.<br /><br />Back-up. I have to take this very seriously: I couldn't afford to lose the MS of, say, Blest Redeemer which came to 153,000 words when finished. I have a special Lindy dock on the front of my desktop into which I slot what is, in effect, a remote hard disk. The appeal of this arrangement is the ease with which I am able to employ it, something that is hard to define in cash terms - until, that is, you've used it a few times.<br /><br />My shoulder bag (now a disgraceful colour) goes with me at all times (wallet, chequebook, mobile phone, pens, coin purse, Hugh Johnson's pocket wine guide, address book, etc). It is not particularly large and wouldn't take a conventional laptop. However the Netbook fits in nicely; thus I am totally absorbed on the train journey to and from The Retreat, but without adding to my burdensRoderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-63228886312913584512013-01-18T10:52:40.822+01:002013-01-18T10:52:40.822+01:00Hi Sabine, missed you there! No, you can't do...Hi Sabine, missed you there! No, you can't download Picasa onto a Chromebook. Like I say, as they're both Google you'd think you could but you can't. I've checked reviews and forums, and it doesn't work, presumably because you need an operating system like Windows to effect the download and make it work. Rumour has it Google may phase Picasa out eventually anyway, in favour of something else to do with Drive or Google+ or something, which would be a great shame.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-30923694942292023042013-01-18T10:48:56.417+01:002013-01-18T10:48:56.417+01:00Thanks three.
Crow, Yes, it plugs into the mains,...Thanks three.<br /><br />Crow, Yes, it plugs into the mains, which is how I'll probably use it quite a lot - I have an extension lead and plug accessible from the sofa! I'm not sure about it for Donovan. I don't really know what he needs, but I think this only really works as a second computer. There are a lot of things you can't do with it which might leave him frustrated, and new ways of doing things to learn, though maybe only for oldies like me, not for him. It is very reasonably priced, the Samsung Chromebook is quite a bit more, but there are Acer netbooks with Windows OS which aren't a great deal more expensive and would probably would be more versatile. I didn't get one because I didn't need to spend the extra, and also because of the ordering problems I mentioned. And I kind of got fed up with all the choice, I actually welcomed being given a drastically reduced choice for less money!<br /><br />You can run Chrome on any (Windows) machine obviously, and benefit from the same apps and extensions. <br /><br />Zephyr (and Robbie) - that's rather how I feel about Picasa; there's something abut sitting down in front of a new batch of downloaded pics on Picasa and playing, nothing like it. I used to have PS but never reloaded it, I liked it but found it (or rather myself using it!) slow,frustrating, non-intuitive, and again, just too much choice, I could never decide which adjustments looked better.<br /><br />Samsung are the other people who do a Chromebook, there's is more expensive and the latest model much more, I don't know why, whether it's much better. Their netbooks look nice too. Google docs aren't difficult, and there are probably apps that convert them to pdf. Sounds like you're better with a Windows netbook though. You pay a bit less over there than we do anyway.<br /><br />Robbie - screen is 25.5 cm x 14.5 not including the frame, I think that's 11 1/2 inches, a bit bigger than my old Dell Mini, and much clearer. It's very neat, I have a lovely colourful soft shoulder bag my sister made which turned out to be the right size for a small laptop. I now feel like popping it into it and going a-wandering! Except it's snowing and there's nowhere I want to go.<br /><br />I'm afraid I didn't observe your movements to and from the loo when you were visiting, but what is and ILYAMA? Regarding Photoshop, see my response to Zephyr, who like you is a whiz with these clever things...<br /> <br />The absence of dvd drive has never bothered me, DVDs as back-up storage became chaotic clutter, I have an external hard drive (Seagate I think) can't remember how much it cost, probably around the £35 mark and it's great. I could plug that into this and work on things, as with the SD drive, but don't see a great need to, again though, I can't shift things from that to the Chromebook, only the other way around.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-41458645769529598232013-01-18T10:35:55.280+01:002013-01-18T10:35:55.280+01:00You can download picasa for free (or/and a paid ve...You can download picasa for free (or/and a paid version with more gadgets)no problem. Just google search for picasa download.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-85715480233057606322013-01-18T08:43:18.197+01:002013-01-18T08:43:18.197+01:00Good grief. I assume your assumption into the cath...Good grief. I assume your assumption into the catholic church, your conversion to veganism, your espousal of Ukip and your first faltering steps towards becoming a soccer hooligan could all take place over a weekend given that the big - the really BIG - decision is now out of the way.<br /><br />You might, by the way, have given me screen dimensions because otherwise this thing looks like a ringer for my Compaq Netbook but somewhat larger in total area. This latter feature has proved to be an inspired advantage since the Netbook fits quite easily into my shoulder bag (that dirty sandy-coloured thing I was never without - even when I went to the loo - that you may have noticed when I came, like Queen Isabella, (see the undramatic yet meaty historical She-Wolves series about Britain's queens on Ch4) to Brittany). <br /><br />I see you also have one of the Netbook's shortcomings - no DVD drive. We live in a downloadable age and so this shouldn't be a problem. And you can, as you say, transfer stuff as email attachments from the desktop. I did investigate external, plug-in DVD drives since these are available for as little as £10. However, these are read-only. Read/write costs about £35.<br /><br />How curiously defensive you are about using a mouse.<br /><br />I note from Zephyr a subject you and I have touched on and about which you (I think) have remained pagan. That's Photoshop. Me, I couldn't get along without it but I prefer to have it on the desktop which is linked to one of greatest computer extravagances I ever made (or VR made) and that's my blessed ILYAMA. Eat your heart out; mine's going to compensate for cataract.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-3998260161829120462013-01-18T03:23:10.790+01:002013-01-18T03:23:10.790+01:00How comforting to read this.
i shall "never&q...How comforting to read this.<br />i shall "never" want a tablet<br />and i refuse to buy Apple because of the snobby "we are cooler than you" cache here in the states<br />AND<br />they force one to pay FAR TOO MUCH for what you get from them<br />just so you can feel cool. i've worked on both systems and fail to see what all the fuss is about.<br /><br />i do confess to coveting a Samsung Note II--but not until it becomes the has-been and is cheap as an upgrade to what i talk on now.<br /><br />i have been pondering this Chrome possibility and am encouraged by your positive review. <br />My problem:<br />i am addicted to playing in Photoshop! i really do love it. But, like you say. i could keep this machine for that and have the "lighter" one for all the rest of the stuff i do.<br />Although<br />i also confess i've never created a Google doc and must always send Word docs to editors...and i love MS Publisher. hm. Must figure that one out. Anyway. Thank you for the good news.<br /><br />My absolute favorite line<br />which made me chuckle out loud:<br />"All is up there in The Cloud, looked after by rainbows and unicorns."zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-42892189251399677552013-01-18T02:34:36.990+01:002013-01-18T02:34:36.990+01:00Can you plug it in to an outlet to save battery li...Can you plug it in to an outlet to save battery life? Can you buy a more powerful battery for it?<br /><br />I suppose I could go to one of the big box office supply stores and ask them, but I'd rather hear a report from someone I trust, who uses it as I probably would.<br /><br />Thank you for this review, Lucy. My grandson needs a laptop type computer for shcool and this one fits the purse rather well.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com