Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Thank you Jurelometer, I figured as much I am an Android guy anywho. On my phone & tablet I do use a compatible office app as well, been awhile . It seems most  non-geeks like the pretty Apple stuff... which are great, I am just use to Android stuff.

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Quote from: Cor on July 11, 2024, 09:08:53 AMI will give the oldest box away and re build the newer one when I feel like it.

Before you give it away, you might list the RAM and motherboard on a site (ebay, craigslist FB marketplace or other).  Both are probably worth more than the complete system to some. 

Keep the case and power supply for your next system upgrade endeavor. Hard drives are good for backups, maybe.

Else give Goodwill and they will part it out or install an OS and give you a voucher for tax deductions, if so needed.

Well I live near the ocean so lots of sea air, which the powerful fans push through the computer case leaving behind rust.   The one case is actually very badly rusted, more than us who know about removing and treating corrosion can fix.

I have used Libre Office for a number of years and it works for what I need to do.   There is actually some better Office like software around, but the advertising in that killed it for me so I dumped it and went back to Libre office.    I have some MS Office CDs that are legit and paid for but they no longer work in Win 10 or 11 or actually I no longer have a CD/DVD drive.  When I bought it there was no talk of limited useful life of the product.

Any case, I do intend to see if I can resurrect the one computer but at the moment my mind is not in any way desirous of starting that, but if there is no hardware fault on the MB or GPU  I should be able to get it to work adequately, and probably give it away to charity or something like that.   The Boss here has directed that I accumulate no more clutter, everything must go!   She keeps looking towards the fishing tackle and rods as well  

Quote from: jgp12000 on July 18, 2024, 11:38:57 AMI was in electronics for 38 years & built PCs for friends/family until I realized the tech support never ends! Frankly, some people don't work well with computers but anyone can learn if they want too. The last PC I built for myself ended up in my shop with a Netgear wifi extender it has a great signal, I use it when I am working on something i.e. lawnmower or reel schematics. It has Windows 10 and the hardware can't handle 11. In the house we use a W10 laptop, Chromebook,& several tablets. Nowadays, I just want to be able to surf the web when I want to without any hiccups. I may build another when I have to, or buy an updated laptop when necessary. I dabbled with Linux & do like it, seems like though whenever you need a microsoft office app they got ya. I got buddies that are into the liquid cooling & overclocking their CPUs for benchmark bragging rights, I rather be fishing 

Just a comment on Chromebook that some people look down on.

I bought a Chromebook for my wife 2 years ago, If I were able to buy a good powerful machine here I would probably have done so. The Wife,s needs are little and it serves her very well and me to as I always have to sort out anything that goes wrong.  Here they are just not in demand.   It's much more economical to purchase, it's a simple machine easy to work and setup, yet fast and can do everything it needs to.    I no longer need a super powerful machine, but having said that you now get i5 and i7 chips in them so those must be double the speed of any Windows device.

We love our chromebook,I prefer a keyboard as well,it also has a touch screen great for road trips.Wifi G band super fast no bloatware RAM hogs running in the background .