Anybody else HATE using LAPTOPS? (desktops, work, click, connect)
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I use a laptop for its portability and space-saving at work. At home, for work related things, I use my iMac (the giant one); for casual surfing I use my iPad.
I will use whatever technology is made available to me. I prefer NOT to use a PC (I never got over XP being discontinued....
I don't use anything but a laptop, and hate the touchpad for navigation. I just use the arrow keys and PgUp / PgDn. Using a mouse means having to take your hand off the keyboard. To me, that's a big nuisance.
My main problem with laptops is I absolutely hate the fact that you have to use your finger as the scrolling component. It annoys me and its much easier to use a mouse. Also I hate the fact that you have to either put the laptop on your lap, or bend over and hurt your back when you put the laptop on a table. Lastly I hate how the keys are steeped inside the keyboard instead of outwardly.
Unless somebody gives me a laptop for free... I'll never buy a laptop, and I don't see why people do.
Am I the only one who hates laptops?
So plug a mouse in. So plug a keyboard, mouse, and external keyboard in.
I love laptops. They make my job infinitely easier. I also don't sit there for four hours at a time and work on a laptop. If I'm at my desk (work from home but out in the field nearly every day) the laptop is docked. I played around with cloud computing but had too many problems with it as the software I use really isn't meant to be used by multiple users so I was constantly cleaning up duplicate copies of files or on rare cases having work overwritten and Google Drive and Office both have tendencies to get stuck and stop syncing... just lots of wasted time.
If you never move the thing, I have no idea why you'd buy a laptop though. They're slower and more expensive than a desktop. The point is that I can put it in my bag, take it to meetings, get 45 minutes of work done at a coffee shop between appointments. Then I can get home and drop it on the dock, one connector, and I've got external monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, headphones, wired Ethernet and it's just like a slightly under-powered desktop. Fine for my needs as I'm not doing any heavy photoshop or video editing or CAD where having a lot of processing power is important.
The pad and eraser are strictly backup devices for those rare and brief times when a mouse isn't plugged in, in my usage. I use a dock with three monitors, a wireless keyboard, and a good wireless Logitech mouse (I think it's the G602). Those occasions when I have to be mobile I still always bring the mouse. In fact, the trackpad is disabled on my work laptop.
Most laptops sold in the Windows 10 era (last 2 years) fully support multi touch.
Touchpads are amazing today. If you haven't used one lately, you need to give them another try. Using 2 ginger on a touch pad to scroll a web page is WAY easier any much more ergonomic then gripping a mouse and using a wheel.
My main problem with laptops is I absolutely hate the fact that you have to use your finger as the scrolling component. It annoys me and its much easier to use a mouse. Also I hate the fact that you have to either put the laptop on your lap, or bend over and hurt your back when you put the laptop on a table. Lastly I hate how the keys are steeped inside the keyboard instead of outwardly.
Unless somebody gives me a laptop for free... I'll never buy a laptop, and I don't see why people do.
Am I the only one who hates laptops?
You can use a mouse with a laptop. You can get a USB cooler that the laptop sits on so that you can comfortably have the laptop in your lap.
I can't help you on the keyboard deal. You can hook up a USB keyboard of your liking, but that might be a little awkward if you have the laptop in your lap.
Most laptops sold in the Windows 10 era (last 2 years) fully support multi touch.
Touchpads are amazing today. If you haven't used one lately, you need to give them another try. Using 2 ginger on a touch pad to scroll a web page is WAY easier any much more ergonomic then gripping a mouse and using a wheel.
Generally depends.
The $500-600 laptops most have awful touchpads still. The $800+ models (unless you're talking gaming laptops) are usually pretty good. Gaming laptops almost universally have horrible touch pads since they're not expecting anyone to ever use them anyway.
I detest the finger pad and how it freezes sporadically.
I did try a Mac Laptop that was more user friendly....only cuz it had a touch screen
Mac laptops don't have touch screens.
Apple makes the iPad, but that isn't a laptop....it's a tablet...runs via IOS, not a Mac OS X computer operating system (High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, Snow Leopard, etc).
I'm typing this on a new in 2016 MacBook Air running El Capitan on the Mac side, and Windows 10 on the Boot Camp partition.
Apple makes the iPad, but that isn't a laptop....it's a tablet...runs via IOS, not a Mac OS X computer operating system (High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, Snow Leopard, etc).
I'm typing this on a new in 2016 MacBook Air running El Capitan on the Mac side, and Windows 10 on the Boot Camp partition.
I use an iPad daily. Apple would have won the tablet race if in their iPad Pro they would have offered a full on Mac OS instead of IOS.
If my iPad bites the dust, I am tempted to go the MacBook route.
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