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3 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2013

Lenovo to ship all new PCs with Start Menu replacement

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Re: Pokki...? Seriously?

Agree, Microsoft's motto should be, as the French say, "Why do simple when you can do complicated..?". But then I'm a long time Mac user and have never come across issues like these (whenever I use Windows it never stops shouting at me that I'm not allowed to do things). All the same there have been problems with each new Mac system trying to be all-embracing covering PCs, tablets and iPhones - with the PC as the dumbed-down loser. This culminated last year in the horrible OS 10.7, hastily backtracked by OS 10.8 - and now what does Maverick hold in store for us? But I'm an old fogey. I don't bother with smart phones (apart from the most basic cell phone) nor tablets (except the most basic Kindle) all I ask is a PC that lets me can get on with my work without hassle. OS 10.4 is still by far the best. I have three computers : one intel with the latest system in order to keep up to date and the others with OS 10.4 (which also happens to be much faster at reading flash drives etc.).

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Acer silences Thunderbolt

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I suppose I'm an even less interesting customer for Mac with my old PPC Tiger machines and F/W connections. In my opinion there has never been a better system than Tiger, especially as it lets me use System 9 apps. I also have a Mac Mini on Mountain Lyon - much slower bossy bloatware system nowhere near as good as Tiger. But it does have a Thunderbolt port for what that's worth and that's the main reason I bought it, although I've not used it yet - we'll see...

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BBC abandons 3D TV, cites 'disappointing' results

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Some of us old fogeys still remember the great 3D craze of the 1950s when we all sat in the cinema and dodged burning brands shoved in our faces (Fort Ti) and flying lances (Charge at Feather River). All good fun, but the novelty soon wore off as we got fed up with wearing those awful cardboard glasses. Even with plastic glasses this latest flash in the pan was predictable.

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