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Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




dudes, should I get a dell?

because I hate all of these

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



chomebook with ubuntu linux

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Considered but my wife hates Ubuntu

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
dell has a US$200 laptop right now

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




is it a good dell though? could it be operated by a non technical spouse?

Rawrl
Mar 30, 2010
Buy an off-lease Latitude.

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
well it's definitely marketed at non technical people

2gb of RAM

32gb eMMC

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




done. I will get the woman, a chrome book. she'll love it.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

used macbook

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
go for the lenovo its got a hot price

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Lenovo can suck my balls until smooth like silk

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
it's probably cheaper to fly to america, buy a macbook pro, ship the box back, and carry the laptop back in your suitcase, than it is to buy it in sheep loving land

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
that's an ideapad though lol

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Wild EEPROM posted:

it's probably cheaper to fly to america, buy a macbook pro, ship the box back, and carry the laptop back in your suitcase, than it is to buy it in sheep loving land

I don't live in Wales.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Amazon are charging 85usd to ship chromebooks to nz smdh

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
doctor doctor gimme the news
i got a bad case of crazy prices on lenovo laptops!!!!!

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




no

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
lenovo: windows 10 laptops at windows xp prices!!!!

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
the only thing hotter than our prices is our cpus when you watch an hd youtube

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




all of the lenovos at work are poo poo. all of them. when they were ibms they were good. how did this happen. how.

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
thinkpads used to be as expensive as macbooks. thats how

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

usa good

china bad

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




yes well now work are getting these tiny little Windows 8.1 network boxes that strap on the back of monitors and are completely impractical for office work because they have zero power and controlled 400kms away

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




all hail teh cloud :yayclod:

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




yea, our organisation is finally in the slow process of migrating from dell hardware bought in 2007-2009 running Windows xp to these little 8.1 boxes :chord:

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




I've explained this to them.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




I also suggested that we upgrade to Windows 7 when we did the last hardware refresh

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




basically no one listens to me because I don't work in the it department

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




actually, nobody listens to me full stop.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




hello?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

hello

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




hi!

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




but yeah. outsourced it="they can still get their poo poo done on this outdated OS and we can pocket the savings!"

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




I think I'm going to buy a chromebook. wife is gonna love it. thanks for reading.

how do I lock a thread on awful.app?

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I think I'm going to buy a chromebook. wife is gonna love it. thanks for reading.

how do I lock a thread on awful.app?

dont think its possible

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




oh. well feel free to post in this amazing thread everybody! let's stay on topic and be kind to one another :)

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer
XPS 13 my man

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.






yeah, nah

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
just sell a few of your countless sheep

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jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
i got a a$700 lenovo a while back which was p good but then a few months later they started shipping them with malware so yeah get a chomebook

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