This is where the defrag program is on my computer. I believe every operating system has one. You may even have more than one, if you’ve got software that came bundled with a defragger.
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This is where the defrag program is on my computer. I believe every operating system has one. You may even have more than one, if you’ve got software that came bundled with a defragger.
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Save your money for a Mac. I have had my Mac laptop for over 2 years and have only ever shut it down to travel, maybe 6 or 7times. That’s it – I don’t do anything else and it always works just fine. My husband’s Dell is nothing but one problem after another. Really, save up – it is worth the extra initial expense.
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On the other hand … my hubby swore by his Mac and sneered at my insistence on getting an IBM platform machine. Then we both needed new mice. His cost $100. Mine was $20. Then his mouse broke again. Another $100. My $20 mouse was still fine.
I’ve been puting since 40 megs of hard drive was a ginormous lot of computer. I’m on my fourth? computer, but have been plugging along with the same monitor, mouse and keyboard for years. I know I’ve replaced each once, but not sure which, if any, I’ve replaced twice.
Long story short, when Dearest needed to upgrade, he switched to the IBM platform.
As I understand it, the main difference between Mac and everybody else is Mac kept their stuff proprietary, so there’s no knock-offs and they can charge what they like. IBM didn’t, so all the other brands use their platform.
My current puter is something I bought from my IT guy used after he upgraded. It says eMachines on the box. Dunno about Dell.
If you’re looking at a specific upgrade, email me and I’ll run the specs past my IT guy. He’s a dear and LOVES my graphics, so wouldn’t mind taking a minutes to help me help you.
Or talk to someone at a computer repair place. Not sales. Repairs. We’ve gotten fantastic advice about major appliances that way. Like Maytag? Yeah, they’re fantastic, unless you get the rare lemon. Then, forget it. Our washer repair guy says they won’t know you.
So we went with the one he recommended and, wouldn’t you know it, got a lemon. The problem was so weird, our guy came three times, could NOT figure out why it was tearing only some items only some of the time. Finally, he brought his dad, who founded and taught him the business. Nicest guys … we all spent the longest time hovering over that machine brainstorming. LOL
Finally, one of them figured it out. The tub was cocked just a little, so
the gap around the center thingie (top loader) was a bit too wide on one wide and a bit too narrow on the other. Clothes float, so most of the loads I did were not affected. It was only the rare thing I put in on a very small load, because it was new , that got pinched and rubbed until it tore.
The company replaced the whole shebang and paid the guys for all their visits. I lost a couple of pretty new things, a dress and a skirt. But I got pregnant and never would’ve fit in them again anyway. The rips were at the bottom, so I cut them down for my girls when they were old enough.
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Chrissy, my Mom wanted a mouse for her Mac laptop (just didn’t like the trackpad) and bought a generic one from Staples that cost about $15. It works fine with her Mac. I think there are a lot more options for peripheral devices these days.
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I’m glad of that. My Dearest’s Tale of Mouse Woe goes back many, many years.
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Does a Mac even have a disc defragmenter? I can’t find it at all, and I’ve looked everywhere I can think of.
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Apparently it’s fragmented. Maybe a magnifying glass would help.
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I found this. Might help.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2091895_defrag-mac-hard-drive.html
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Well aren’t you just the wealth of information on every topic. As it happens, I was just discussing a new computer with my guy who just charged me $130.00 and it’s working worse than ever. I told him another visit is practically the cost of a new computer. (mines almost ten years old, i think. very slow and noisy. HE SAID go Mac. NOW, I’m all confused based on your comments.
Also happen to have a broken microwave, yesterday, after going two weeks without a washer and dryer. It’s coming tomorrow. God help me if it’s a lemon = ( What do you suppose will go next? Oh, my tractor, for sure. It barely goes forward. OXOXOX
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Two weeks with no washer and drier? Aarrgghh!
My appliances, vehicles, etc. always wait until we are unemployed and have no income, then they start committing suicide one by one. So far this year the water heater ruptured and had to be replaced ($1,300.00) and the fan on the furnace went out and had to be repaired ($360). Then I took my elderly sewing machine in for some routine maintenance (cleaning, lubrication, etc.) and ever since I got it back I can’t use it because it gives off electrical shocks when you touch it. The guy who I paid $65.00 to tune it up claims it couldn’t be anything he did to it, since he says he didn’t mess with any of the electrical stuff, so I’m out of luck — all that money down the drain. Can’t afford a new one. The computer at least still works, even though it’s very slow. The next time my son (the computer geek) comes over I’m going to ask him about this defragging business. I’m too afraid to attempt it — afraid whatever I do will end up making matters worse or messing up something important.
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What is it with appliances and their mutual kari kiri thing? This is not the first time I’ve heard this happening.
Like, we had four hard drives give up the ghost for different reasons all in ONE WEEKEND. Dearest runs his biz out of the house, has multiple machines for various tasks, plus I have mine and the girls had one to share. So lots of hard drives. But holy guacamole. FOUR?! In one weekend?! And NOT from some house wide lightning strike or something. All different. Too weird!
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I’m “bi” – I use a PC at work and my macBook for personal use. It’s sorta like being semi-fluent in English and French or something. The key to happiness with both of them is having a full IT support team on site at the office and my son the computer genius at home. No worries with either that way.
I use MS Office and Office for Mac, so I spend most of my time in Word, regardless of machine. And it doesn’t matter which computer I use, I still hate Excel. I go back and forth between PowerPoint and Keynote when I create presentations and videos. But when I need to do something with graphics the Mac is soooo much easier. I always do my blog on my Mac (mostly because they’d fire my butt if I was blogging on the state computer – but that’s beside the point) and the drag and drop functionality sure makes things much faster and easier.
My MacBook is about due for replacement (it’s almost six years old) and I’m seriously tempted by the iPad, but it doesn’t have quite all the capability I need for presentations.
Bottom line – I can use the PC fine, but they will have to pry my Mac from my cold dead hands.
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I used a PC for years and always felt that I was in an adversarial relationship with it. When I needed a new computer six years ago, my son talked me into buying a Mac, and I fell in love with it because it’s so much easier for a technologically-challenged non-geek like me to use. Also, my PC was always getting viruses, and my Mac never does.
Still, I try to stay away from PC-vs.-Mac arguments; people on both sides have strong feelings and (I assume) good reasons for their preference. I take a live-and-let-live attitude. Each person should use whatever he or she is most comfortable with and whatever meets his or her needs.
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Yes, indeed, to each his own. If I remember correctly, Chrissy’s husband is an architect so he would absolutely need a PC for AutoCad, the main program that architects use for computer assisted drawing. That program allows them to e-mail entire sets of building plans, and then the recipient can make changes, if necessary. As of a couple of years ago, that program was not Mac compatible. I have to use my husband’s Dell for that program, but I mostly only receive the plans and do not alter them.
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Ting, You’re right about that. Though, as I recall, when Dearest first put aside his pencils and erasers for AutoCad, lo these many years ago, the programs in use by folks in our area were Mac platform. That’s why his earliest machines were all Macs.
I’m thinking maybe it was like Betamax and VHS, where the market started in one direction, but then the majority of consumers decided on the other, because when he had to upgrade in order to keep up with the other folks … all the architects, engineers, etc. have to be more or less on the same versions or the stuff they download and share doesn’t work … everyone was going with the IBM platform AutoCad.
I think it kinda griped Dearest to have to sorta kinda “admit” I was maybe not the utter fool he’d made me out for not getting a Mac. You know how guys are. And he’s a first born. So worse and worse. LOL
We have separate offices … in opposite ends of the house. We are SO not compatible about our work spaces! I’m tidy. He’s a … well, he’s not tidy. I need silence. He has the radio on all the time. But with lots of cable, we are networked and can share files and such. Occasionally, he even sits down by my desk and allows me to show him a shortcut or two for the programs I use a lot and he uses rarely. But it’s hard on his poor little first born male psyche. LOLOL
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When I went for my first machine, Dearest was a Mac Lover and so was the sales guy I worked with. But me being me … I DEMANDED to at least look at an IBM platform machine and it was the same thing. Love at first sight. I just felt right with it. And the salesman could see that. He sighed a lot … but he admitted. It just fit me better.
When folks ask me about this, I tell them that, plus to look at what software they most want to use and find a machine that works that software well. I saw this older couple in a store once getting a HARD sell from a young whippersnapper who clearly had more interest in his commission than in getting this first time computing couple something they needed and could afford.
I pulled them aside and learned they had taken up genealogy in their retirement and wanted to put their records on something like Family Tree Maker and connect with on-line resources. The machine that guy was pushing on them was thousands of dollars more than they needed at the time. I pointed them elsewhere and I’ve always kinda thought it was their guardian angels who made me feel so nosey and buttinski-ish that day.
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What did I tell you! Tractor broke today. new washer and dryer arrived, the installers had a problem and the “repair” people had to come out. Only one came, fixed that problem, but I showed him another concern, and he has to come back with someone else because I have them stacked, and he needs to take the dryer off. So, now I still can’t use either and they are in the middle of my bathroom until – – – – – – – FRIDAY! (The earliest they can come back) This however, confirms I will be getting the service plan (add $250.00) that I have to elect within thirty days of purchase.
And now, let’s relate this whole fiasco to politics, or more specifically OBAMA. When at Sears I could not understand how washers and dryers had gotten so costly. I explained to the salesmen I had gotten a front load washer 11 years ago, and then the same one five years ago for another residence, and guess which one broke – the 5 year old one, SAME MAKE AND MODEL. I contend the newer it is the sooner it will break, and now the prices are in the stratsiphere. Guess what he said? BLAME OBAMA, and then he explained why: All appliances have to be energy efficient to specific standards by 2014, and the companies and technology is not ready for it and all the manufacturers are scrambling and throwing all this stuff into the making them, and making them work, and NOW, they won’t even work if they aren’t maintained annually because the whole system is so complicated. So in this robust economy you’re not only paying lots more for the product, but then annually to maintain it.
He wasn’t satisfied to screw up my country. He had to go for my appliances as well. Did I mention I can’t stand that guy?
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My heart goes out to you and I am seething on your behalf.
I still remember VIVIDLY the day I got my first very own washing machine. I was so GIDDY about NOT having to lug the clothes and the baby to a laundromat that I stood in front of it taking each piece of dirty clothing out of the hamper and swinging it around my head, laughing like a lunatic, “Look! Look! I can just PUT IT IN THE MACHINE!! Yahoo!!”
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