OT Tech Support.

[spdrun]

If you entrust personal data to a corporation that has a financial interest in using it for marketing purposes, G-d bless you. I’ll continue to save locally and do a proper backup regularly/automatically. It’s also great that I can use OpenOffice (free), GIMP (free), and Thunderbird (free) and not pay anyone a monthly fee for storage.

The trend that says AWK! AWK! CLOUD GOOD! LET’S PUT EVERYTHING WE WRITE ON THE INTARWEBS! YES! MODERN! TECH! is frankly retarded.

Nothing wrong with saving locally and using a properly encrypted backup service and software like Carbonite. One that you, and only you hold the crypto keys to.

Tresorit also looks very promising, especially since it’s based in Switzerland, not the land of the brave and home of the NSA.

[NotCranky]

[quote=AN][quote=Blogstar]I’ll mention that to my better half AN, but is she wants a mac, it’s fine with me. O.K. I sent my wife a text suggesting she look at the cheaper alternatives.
What about making data transfer from the mac air to these other alternatives?[/quote]
Where does her data reside? It shouldn’t be an issue transferring data. Just get a flash drive big enough to store all the data, then move the data to the flash drive, then plug it in the new computer and move them into the new computer. If you have Office 365, then all the docs should already be in the cloud, so all you have to log into your account and you should be able to see them all. All of my docs are in Office 365 cloud, so I can log into my mac, my android tablet, and my PC and they’re all there. No need to worry about where the files are.[/quote]
The data is on the broken mac air book. We can’t it on to anything without putting the hard drive in a functioning Mac and transferring. That was part of the earlier posts. We don’t have office 365 , though that might be a good thing to get.

[spdrun]

If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from tech store was yes the remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from tech store was yes the remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]If you replace the system board, you can swap the hard drive or SSD over to the new one, no problem.[/quote]
Like I said I am not sure we are going to do that.
I think it would be better if just the questions I ask were answered instead of a lot of side topics.

We have a broken mac air book. I am not sure if I want to fix it . We want another computer. Tech store will move data from broken mac to either a new air book or maybe a PC.

So can the tech store, WITHOUT fixing 6 year old broken ,mac get the data into the new lap top if it is one of these cheaper that mac alternatives that are mentioned.

Thanks.

The answer to me from apple oriented tech store was yes they remove my hard drive put it in another good air book and move the data. I have not asked if they can do it to cheaper PC. I don’t see why not but that’s what I am asking?

[Doofrat]

I’m a PC guy, but I’m thinking if you could find out what the connector type is for the drive on your exact model of MacBook, you might be able to get a (type of connector here) to USB adapter which could just be plugged into another Mac externally? That way you don’t have to deal with taking apart a new Mac to install a drive.

Or like spdrun just said, if you swap the motherboard, you just connect the old drive and you’re off.
Looks like Apple changes their connectors constantly, so if you go the new device route, the USB way may be the only way.

[an]

Found this good blog post about good cheap PC laptop out right now:

http://www.windowscentral.com/best-cheap-laptops

[spdrun]

2GB of RAM. Good luck not throwing the bloody thing out of a window when it’s unusably slow.

This reads like an article on netbooks from 2009, except that the OS has fucking spyware built in.

[an]

What kind of website do you browse, how big are your email, and how big your word documents that requires more than 2gb of ram? You get what you pay for. $300 is cheaper than an iPad mini.

[spdrun]

Multiple tabs and programs open add up quickly. Sites and OS’s are bloated in 2016, deal with it.

Email, I have about 10GB offline synced with an IMAP server.

Also, 32GB of local storage = fail. Give me a 240/256GB flash drive. You can get business-grade Thinkpads used very cheaply, plonk in an SSD and 8GB of RAM and have an amazingly fast, stellar system for about $300. Thinkpad T220 or X201 = $150 used. SSD = $100 new. RAM = $50.

They’re bad ass. Light. 4-5 hr of batt life. And I’ve dropped ’em without a case and had them scratch without further damage.

Windows 7 of course means less spyware and no advertising bullshyte. “Get office 365”. Yeah, bite me, I’ll stick with OpenOffice and not pay a monthly mordida.

[ucodegen]

There is also LibreOffice (along with OpenOffice) which take care of MSWord, eXcel, PowerPoint. There is also OpenProj, ProjectLibre, and GanttProject for the MSProject replacement. @spdrun, there is going to be a mod to GIMP that will set Photoshop back on its heels. Photoshop processes images at a higher depth than 8 bit, which means less ‘banding’ in images when contrast/brightness/gamma gets changed. GIMP only works in 8 bit…. until the next update which will significantly increase the bit depth.

An there is also the Linux options which often work quite well on old machines. The ISOs can be downloaded through BitTorrent, and either burned to a CD/DVD or put on a USB drive. Some of these ISOs can be run ‘Live’ right off the CD/DVD-rom so you can see if you like how it runs (it will run slower because access is significantly slower than a hard drive), Fedora, CentOS(RedHat clone), Debian, Mint, Ubuntu for examples.

Oh yeah, there is also Hugin for creating panoramas, including photo-spheres.

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