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1 hour ago, David said:

9 years for a Windows laptop will get you in the Guinness book of records, drop them an email with your receipt! Congrats  

I brought a new W10 ThinkPad in December 2017 and its still working perfectly (business use). Although I do sometimes have to delete some of the crap that gets installed during an update.

It replaced a Fujitsu Windows XP laptop that was new in 2006. The one before that I can't remember, but it ran Windows 98 and before that a second-hand Compaq 386 laptop running both DOS and Windows 3.1

I always buy the most expensive laptop I can when I replace them. I'm hoping the current one will see me out!

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Yes.

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David will think that's a Lionel Richie LP.

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Don't spend too much. I have a Toshiba c850 which is about 10 years old. 8gb ram + ssd (reinstalled windows 10 onto it). All good but I backup once a week using freeware program macrium reflect.  Good

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1 minute ago, Grumpy Git said:

I brought a new W10 ThinkPad in December 2017 and its still working perfectly (business use). Although I do sometimes have to delete some of the crap that gets installed during an update.

It replaced a Fujitsu Windows XP laptop that was new in 2006. The one before that I can't remember, but it ran Windows 98 and before that a second-hand Compaq 386 laptop running both DOS and Windows 3.1

I always buy the most expensive laptop I can when I replace them. I'm hoping the current one will see me out!

All I think is when I read this, you've probably spent more times sat watching windows updates as I have sat on the toilet in my life!

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13 minutes ago, Grumpy Git said:

I brought a new W10 ThinkPad in December 2017 and its still working perfectly (business use). Although I do sometimes have to delete some of the crap that gets installed during an update.

It replaced a Fujitsu Windows XP laptop that was new in 2006. The one before that I can't remember, but it ran Windows 98 and before that a second-hand Compaq 386 laptop running both DOS and Windows 3.1

I always buy the most expensive laptop I can when I replace them. I'm hoping the current one will see me out!

I've got a Toshiba T1200 from the late 80s that only ran DOS....

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We used to use it for remote support back in the day. I rescued it from a skip at work when they finally moved into the 90s and provided us with a laptop - I found it in the loft a couple of years ago and it still boots up - should probably be in a museum....

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22 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

I've got a Toshiba T1200 from the late 80s that only ran DOS....

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We used to use it for remote support back in the day. I rescued it from a skip at work when they finally moved into the 90s and provided us with a laptop - I found it in the loft a couple of years ago and it still boots up - should probably be in a museum....

I've still got my Compaq, not sure when I booted it last though. I used to use Lotus 123 (for Windows) for my spreadsheets back then.

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48 minutes ago, David said:

All I think is when I read this, you've probably spent more times sat watching windows updates as I have sat on the toilet in my life!

Nope, just let it do its thing when I'm done for the day and an update is pending.

I used an iPhone for a few months last year, (after smashing my Samsung). I had to buy a new Samsung before I turned into an axe wielding psychopath.

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33 minutes ago, Gaspode said:

I've got a Toshiba T1200 from the late 80s that only ran DOS....

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We used to use it for remote support back in the day. I rescued it from a skip at work when they finally moved into the 90s and provided us with a laptop - I found it in the loft a couple of years ago and it still boots up - should probably be in a museum....

Sounds like you should give cash in the attic a call, get you on!

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On 12/08/2023 at 18:09, RoyMac5 said:

Just had my old (5 yrs ish) Windows 10 laptop crash a couple of times because of overheating. Not sure why, there’s no heavy load when I check in task manager.

Anyway I guess it’s time for a new laptop. I have never used Windows 11 so am unsure as to the spec needed. No gaming will be done 😄 so will 8gb be enough memory and will I need video memory?

Elsewhere you ask about browsers. I use Brave a fair amount (though it doesn't allow emojis on dcfcfans!). If you cast, then retaining Chrome for some applications is obviously a must. I think 8GB is fine as a lower limit for memory. Don't think you'll need video memory unless you're a gamer.

You never regret making a backup. If you're beginning to experience problems, I'd make sure you have everything on an external hard drive in case the worst happens. Yes the cloud's convenient, but also a hacker's paradise. Keep it local. 

I've had a couple of high-spec Lenovo Yoga's for the amazing soundbar, but the more recent one is weird and takes a few seconds to boot, a bit like those old spinning hard drives used to, so I'll possibly move to a Surface laptop next. Very pricey for the spec, but lovely build quality. Though I actually wish I had the time and energy to move myself over to Linux and away from all this Windows nonsense. 

Good luck!

 

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On 12/08/2023 at 18:09, RoyMac5 said:

Just had my old (5 yrs ish) Windows 10 laptop crash a couple of times because of overheating. Not sure why, there’s no heavy load when I check in task manager.

Anyway I guess it’s time for a new laptop. I have never used Windows 11 so am unsure as to the spec needed. No gaming will be done 😄 so will 8gb be enough memory and will I need video memory?

Should be absolutely fine mate, gaming is the main drain on processor and memory 

 

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On 12/08/2023 at 18:09, RoyMac5 said:

Just had my old (5 yrs ish) Windows 10 laptop crash a couple of times because of overheating. Not sure why, there’s no heavy load when I check in task manager.

Anyway I guess it’s time for a new laptop. I have never used Windows 11 so am unsure as to the spec needed. No gaming will be done 😄 so will 8gb be enough memory and will I need video memory?

Was also going to say if its a blue screen crash aka a memory dump it might be a program or hardware fault causing it

if u save anything u need/ thats important and do a reboot to an earlier save point (pre installation of any mew software it might be that causing it

i had that with my windows 10 laptop, turns out the new mempry i put in it was conflicting with the mother board 

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1 hour ago, NottsRam77 said:

Was also going to say if its a blue screen crash aka a memory dump it might be a program or hardware fault causing it

if u save anything u need/ thats important and do a reboot to an earlier save point (pre installation of any mew software it might be that causing it

i had that with my windows 10 laptop, turns out the new mempry i put in it was conflicting with the mother board 

That's exactly what I did. 🙂 Not the memory conflict obvs 😉 

I think the major problem is that I leave it sitting with muliple browers, with multiple tabs open, and although they say they now say they 'sleep' to save resources I don't think it always works. Lots of resource hogging, I've just seen that Insta doesn't sleep and causes 'high useage' reports in Edge. I also checked on the browser(s) settings, as Edge had set itself to use hardware acceleration. 

Anyway I think I'll just have to stop being lazy and instead of swapping between browsers by clicking on the taskbar I will actually have to individually open and close the browsers with them set to 'open with previous tabs on start up' . FFS what is the world coming too! 😵🤣

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