What is your main access to the Internet?

Lap top and Smartphone..the latter is so handy and within my reach at home wheteas the lappy is in another room out of sight but I prefer it as the phone is limited but suits me
 
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I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world to still have a clunky desktop - I'll've had it 8 years next month (January). It was a refurb I bought form a computer repair shop when my Windows XP tower gave up the ghost. The case is HP Compaq, but the innards were probably revamped at the computer shop. Have had to replace a few peripherals, though. Probably horribly outdated as to software and hardware. I only keep it because any new system will have Windows 10 and a few people have told me they HATE it. I have Windows 7 and am familiar with that, up to a point. I have heard good things abut Chromebook, but to access the Internet, you have to do it with Wi Fi or other wireless connections. I have a wired modem. Correct me if I'm wrong since I am not very tech savvy.

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Aunt Bea said:
My only access is with a laptop.

Lately, I've been thinking that I need another inexpensive device to serve as a backup now that my bills are being paid online.
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YES!!! A couple of days ago I had temporary trouble with my PC and I got panicky, since I do a lot of my bill paying and other financial stuff online. I should probably bite the expense bullet and get a smartphone. I do like my PC, though, with its large screen and big keyboard, would never get rid of my Windows 10 PC.
 
Laptop.

Trap me not, at a desk with a dinosaur in only one room of the house.

Like today, I took my lappy into the kitchen to follow a recipe using it's battery. Tablet or phone will afford the same convenience, but not a desk top.
 
RadishRose said:
Laptop.

Trap me not, at a desk with a dinosaur in only one room of the house.

Like today, I took my lappy into the kitchen to follow a recipe using it's battery. Tablet or phone will afford the same convenience, but not a desk top.
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How do you print your recipes for repeat uses? Can you print them from your lappy? I would get a laptop if not for the lack of print options, not just recipes but also financial stuff.
 
I print nothing. It's all in my PC which replaces paper files, which is the point.

If I needed to print anything I would use the library. I don't own a printer anymore.

Actually, I didn't know we couldn't hook up to a printer.
 
@Catlady, we can hook our lappies to printers!

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You have to have bought Microsoft Office Suite, and I don't know much about it, but we can

Being your laptop to computer shop and ask then to show you.
 
RadishRose said:
I print nothing. It's all in my PC which replaces paper files, which is the point.

If I needed to print anything I would use the library. I don't own a printer anymore.

Actually, I didn't know we couldn't hook up to a printer.
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Okay, I just looked it up, looks like I CAN use a printer with a laptop. I'd like to have a laptop, we'll see. I like to print my recipes and keep them in a file box, and I like to print financials like stock confirmations. I'm OCD that way. I know, it's bad!

To use a printer with your laptop, you must first set it up. A few laptops still feature a printer port, but most use a regular USB port. ... Also, set up the printer with ink and paper according to the directions that came with the printer. Connect a USB cable to the printer and to your laptop.
 
My lap top is heavy and bought it in 2012 a Sony Vaio model. Its proved a good lap top and I switched to W10 a bout 4 years ago and so far not had any probs with this version but then I simplistic in my usage and not very technical.
 
Catlady said:
How do you print your recipes for repeat uses? Can you print them from your lappy? I would get a laptop if not for the lack of print options, not just recipes but also financial stuff.
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I use an iPad for everything that I do, and I have 3 of them, plus a small Kindle Fire that i only use for reading books with. My ipads hook right up wirelessly with our printer, so anything I need to print, I can do it. The printer is out of the way in the back exercise room, and I can sit comfortably in our living room with my ipad and send it to the printer.
However, I have started putting recipes as well as knitting patterns right into the ipad, since it is easy to carry it into the kitchen for following the recipe, and it never gets lost that way.
Online there are a lot of free pattern and recipe books on Amazon Kindle Store, so I get those and have them stored in my ipad and Kindle.

I had a Chromebook for a while, and they are kind of a super-easy to use laptop, and use the Google operating system, which also protects the Chromebook from any viruses that come out.
If you have an antenna built into your modem, @debodun , then you can use it for a wireless connection. If you rent the modem from your internet provider, they can tell you if it can use wireless or not, and if not, they can update you to one that does use wireless.

The Chromebook can also be hooked up to an external monitor , so if you have a large monitor that you are using with your dinosaur desktop, then you could use the monitor with the Chromebook if you wanted to.
Chromebook are very inexpensive, and start at under $200; so you might want to check them out the next time that you are at Best Buy, or one of the other similar stores.
 
Desktop with a solid state hard drive & a nice 22 inch monitor. Don't do tablets, ipads & cell phones but I do have 2 laptops in the other room.
 

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