[Hidden-tech] So maybe I'll buy a PC and not a Mac—advice, please

[Rich Roth]

Shel,

I come at this from a few angles.

If you know and like Macs - I'd stick there -- my wife is our mac person 
and she just got a New macbook pro (model 1398)
moved up to 15 inch screen with OUT the touch bar (all reports agree 
with earlier comment - not a good idea)
Works great for her -- lots of basic photo editing, email, documents and 
blogging.
Forget MS office - go with Libre Office until you really need exact 
compatibility - you might
LO does pretty good for interchange able documents
One suggestion, clean your old machine before using the transfer program 
-- it does a good job BUT takes a long time and moves EVERYTHING -- also 
do not use the network, way too slow - get a direct cable.

As for moving to PC world - lots of differences -- lots to move to new 
programs

if you got that way, I second Lenovo - I'm on my 2nd (or it 3rd) anyway, 
had mostly very good luck with all models we've had 5-6 since they spun 
off from IBM, only one had issues, my daughter had with one unit that 
was a bit of a lemon, had issues with mike feedback for recordings.
Get on the Lenovo mailing list and you get plenty of discount offers.
Rt button drive lots of other menus - like ctl-click or 2 finger (or sum 
such) on the mac

as for videos -- check out Handbrake and openshot -- but I'll leave more 
detailed video comments to others

As for chomebook - really doesn't work as a base unit - way to network 
depended -- great as a 2nd machine esp since so cheap.

That's my 2 cents -- good luck

On 2/26/2018 3:46 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who responded to my query last week about which 
> Mac to buy. It seems that neither of the Macs I asked about will 
> really work for me, and the one that would is going to be about $2000.
>
> Meanwhile, Dell happened to mail me a flier today. For $600 plus $150 
> for MS Office—I've tried some of the freebie Office clones and NOT 
> been happy—I can get an 8GB laptop with the Intel 7th Generation chip. 
> I don't know yet about what ports it has, which was a major problem 
> with the Mac. I figure at minimum, I need a power port plus two USBs, 
> plus an SD reader. And a DVD ROM drive would be highly desirable, 
> especially as our video player stopped talking to our TV.
>
> I've tested Gmail, Twitter, PowerPoint and Word on my wife's older PC 
> laptop and it seems the adjustment between operating systems is much 
> smoother than in the past. The last PC machine I owned was a NEC 
> laptop running Windows 3.1.
>
> So anyway, I'd love advice on:
>
>  1. Good, reliable, fast machines to buy, preferably from
>     socially/environmentally responsible companies and under $1000
>  2. Anything I should be wary of in switching operating systems
>  3. A cheat-sheet on keyboard commands for things like taking
>     screenshots and making PDFs (both VERY easy to do on Mac)
>  4. What does that right button actually do?
>  5. With PCs known for far greater virus issues than Mac, what
>     precautions will I need to take?
>  6. Is there easy built-in software or freeware for making videos?
>     Making text or menu macros?
>
> Thanks, as always.
>
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