lynndiwagon wrote: Hey, you get what you pay for. It's all pretty much throw away stuff now. I bought an Acer Netbook from Target for cheap. It has Starter 7. It is what it is. Works for me. When it breaks......throw it away, buy another cheapo. Can't fix for the price of another.
I value reliability, especially when I'm out of town.
lynndiwagon wrote: Hey, you get what you pay for. It's all pretty much throw away stuff now. I bought an Acer Netbook from Target for cheap. It has Starter 7. It is what it is. Works for me. When it breaks......throw it away, buy another cheapo. Can't fix for the price of another.
Yah, but the data sometimes is so valuable that money can't buy back. There is nothing I hate more than a failed hard disk.
lynndiwagon wrote: Hey, you get what you pay for. It's all pretty much throw away stuff now. I bought an Acer Netbook from Target for cheap. It has Starter 7. It is what it is. Works for me. When it breaks......throw it away, buy another cheapo. Can't fix for the price of another.
Yah, but the data sometimes is so valuable that money can't buy back. There is nothing I hate more than a failed hard disk.
I agree but it's not just the loss of data I'm concerned with. If I'm on a trip, having a computer with me allows me to find places to go, check maps, keep up with emails, etc., manage my bank account, carry tunes, etc. (sure, one could do it with a smart phone but that carries a hefty monthly bill).
Loss of data can be averted by keeping back ups. I generate little new data when on the road so any I do generate, I email to myself and also put on a thumb drive. I do similar with photos I take (they are too large to email). I download them to both the computer and another camera card as soon as it is convenient.
Lots of ways to save the data......Dropbox is a good one. Kind of like the "Cloud." Watch the hard drive on that Toshiba, just replaced one on my daughters. Good luck out there.
Lynn & Diana Wagoner
Three Boston Terriers
2005 Chevy 2500HD D/A
2006 HHII 29.5LKTG
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lynndiwagon wrote: Lots of ways to save the data......Dropbox is a good one. Kind of like the "Cloud." Watch the hard drive on that Toshiba, just replaced one on my daughters. Good luck out there.
Dropbox is in the cloud. Freebie cloud storage has a nasty habit of disappearing with little or no warning. Using the cloud for an offsite backup solution in conjunction with at least one local backup is wise but using the cloud for storage or one's only backup is risky, same as having only one local back up. One should always have multiple backups so if one fails, your data won't be lost. At least one of those backups should be offsite.
lynndiwagon wrote: Lots of ways to save the data......Dropbox is a good one. Kind of like the "Cloud." Watch the hard drive on that Toshiba, just replaced one on my daughters. Good luck out there.
Dropbox is in the cloud. Freebie cloud storage has a nasty habit of disappearing with little or no warning. Using the cloud for an offsite backup solution in conjunction with at least one local backup is wise but using the cloud for storage or one's only backup is risky, same as having only one local back up. One should always have multiple backups so if one fails, your data won't be lost. At least one of those backups should be offsite.
When thumb drives sell for $2 per gig there is no excuse for not having backups.
Dropbox is the greatest invention for file storing and sharing.
We can use my wife's Kindle Fire for internet use in place of our Asus i7 computer if we wish.
It works quite well in horizontal posistion for internet use. Along with the normal book reading, movies, and games, it does very well on internet anywhere you have WiFi service.
MSN.Com now has a moble screen for Android OS. Just about all e-mail services work on it. I can use it for RV.Net. There are apps for word-processing, spread-sheets, etc., and much longer battery-life than a lap-top.
Mark & Jan "Old age & treachery win over youth & enthusiasm"
2003 Fleetwood Jamboree 29
If you want the computer in your pocket, get a smartphone or Ipod touch and use wifi access. (you can call with an ipod touch with voip). If you want to type a lot, get a separate, battery powered bluetooth keyboard to carry in your daypack.
If you travel with a carry on and use wifi, then a tablet, ereader or netbook.
If only in your RV, then a netbook, tablet, ereader or laptop that gets wifi.
If you stay in hotels with only cat 5 cable access, then a netbook or laptop.
I was recently in Europe for a month with just an Ipod touch and small bluetooth keyboard.
My travel netbook is a 12 inch model because I prefer the larger keyboard. I can use a USB DVD player for movies and a USB TV tuner for TV/cable. Bring along a headset for skype on campground wifi or use an aircard or mifi.
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