OTish; Laptops

[Capitol]

What's wrong with '97?

[Tim Streater]

Office 98 doesn't run on my machine. I don't think I even have a copy any longer.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I am not sure I ever did. Not a legal one anyway..

[tony sayer]

Now that SS drive is around the best upgrade You can do to most any machine

Its a big bit of RAM really;-)...

[tony sayer]

In article , Simon Brown scribeth thus

I thin we made the distinction betwixt 32 and 64 bit systems a few posts ago;!...

[Bod]

8 here.

[Bod]

Same here, two my machines have SSD system drives. They positively fly along.

[Bod]

[Bod]

Did *anyone* own a legal copy !? :-)

[Simon Brown]

Yeah, mine does sometimes get that high but not very often. Usually only when converting a video into a format that is visible on one of the more primitive video players like an Xbox and I don?t need to do that often enough to leave that loaded all the time.

[Nick Odell]

Actually, I've still got Windows 3.1 (3.11 to be precise)

I loved Word for Windows, V1, which came out in 1989. It did everything I wanted in exactly the way I wanted it to. It was great! Then along came V2 - which "improved away" all the bits I really liked. So I keep a small, separate computer running Win 3.11 and Word

1 (but not running t'internet) hooked up to a printer for all the arty-farty things I write and send to people in envelopes with stamps and I suppose I use that setup like a typewriter.

I also have a typewriter.

Nick

[Bod]

Lol.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Theres a word proccesor that runs in a linux console - no GUI required - that behaves JUST LIKE WORDSTAR.

Somewhere I have word perfect for linux as well.

TBH wordstar and word perfect are all 99.99% of people actually need.

WORD is an abortion these days. Its neither a text editor nor a page layout editor.

Nor is it much good for scientific work.

I really hate it and its clone, libre office, because they do an awful lot really badly.

Sigh if relief when I discovered Scribus: Now the pictures stay where I put them.

[Tim Watts]

+1 - I would not recommend anyone buy a laptop now without an SSD drive

- at least as the primary.

[Capitol]

[Bod]

[John Rumm]

Gets you into BSI online as well...

[Bod]

Hmm, very handy, we have a library card. Thanks for the info.

[John Rumm]

Most word users don't though.

[Bod]

Ok.