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The link I had above was good value when i linked it and it was on special.

Look through here for current specials:

https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/d/deals/flashsale/?ipromoID=au_masthead_sale_es1

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It’s OK, you are moving towards a time when (according to the thread title) you won’t understand it any longer.

(And yes the same applies for me. Although when it comes to trying to configure home IoT networking, I think it actually that I probably no longer can be arsed trying to understand it, I have better things to do.)

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I’ve got a Lenovo ThinkPad for work, and Mrs B has a Lenovo Yoga for home use. Both are a few years old. They’re both pretty good on the whole, though mine has just hit the 3-year mark, and is suddenly, right on cue, running slowly.
If ours are any guide, all Lenovo’s have this maddening flaw. If you close them while they’re active, but then leave them idle for long enough (say, a few hours), they go into this sleep which you just cannot rouse them from. The only way out is a reset by either holding down the power button for an extended period, or by using a paper-clip in the little hidden reset hole. There’s a heap of info about it on the Net, and many supposed hacks, but we’ve never found any way around it.
It’s a royal pain-in-the-arse if you’re like me (a bit tardy about regularly saving your open work…)

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Your best bet is a ‘repair reinstall’, which leaves all data and programs in place, but refreshes Windows files.

This isn’t unique to Lenovo. Windows does slow down over time, and for many reasons.

Take a good image backup of the whole drive first, so you can restore if anything goes wrong.

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News! There is actually a Microsoft article about how to clean up the junk files that accumulate and slow the computer down (also fixed by the repair reinstall).

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A Lenovo x1 is what I have for work. I love it because it’s so light and thin (for travelling with)

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I got a Surface for travel. It’s basically a full Windows machine in a tablet-sized package. If you don’t need crazy processing power and just want a browser and so on, it works fine and is cheap.

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I recently got a new laptop for work after basically burning the old one into the ground after seven years of pretty intense use.

My goodness, the difference in processing speed in modern laptops is insane. On that old laptop to run an iteration of code I use was about 12 seconds, on the new one it is a bit under three.

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Please refer to thread title :grin:

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Last time I had a Windows PC, I cracked the sads after about 18 months because it had slowed to a crawl. I assumed it was because everything you did was filling the registry.

I took a solution suggested by @Albert_Thurgood and bought a Mac.

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As an IT Pro, I used to run Windows on a home PC. And I used to reinstall every 12-18 months, to ‘refresh’/speed up the OS again. Or resolve worse issues.

Ever since I changed to Mac for consultancy/work use, I’ve never had to reinstall. I’ve upgraded to new OS’s and transferred from older hardware to newer hardware since 2012 without ever having to reinstall from scratch, or ‘refresh’ my main daily work tool. That’s just not possible in Windows.

And malware? I never need to be concerned about malware, unless I download 3rd party Mac software from a dodgy site and specifically install it against all advice from the OS.

You can still have passwords stolen if you follow a link to a bad website, like for example, one that pretends to be your bank’s main website, and you type in your user/pass, but I’d argue that’s a very different thing to having your whole OS compromised.

Of course, plenty of people need Office with Windows macros and/or VBA for work use, or other legacy software that is Windows based. And I’d still recommend a Windows PC if you’re a gamer. And I frequently build hardware to optimise value for money for usage. Speaking of which, if you need a PC for this purpose, I’d research thoroughly before buying ARM based PC’s for work use. Not everything is compatible with ARM, and half the new CPU’s on the market are ARM based nowadays, since Macs showed how powerful they can be.

But for uncomplicated, daily browsing, banking, and basic Office use, it’s hard to go past the simple reliability of a Mac. And despite their price, the Mac laptops represent very good value for money. Equivalent quality hardware on Windows laptops is commonly more expensive. It’s just that MacBooks only have the option of quality hardware.

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But why don’t they have a touch screen?

Mrs Fox needed a new PC last year after her Surface Laptop died. We went to Apple Shop intending it get a Mac, it was a bad experience, about as much fun as visiting the dentist. No touch screen and some other specs were not to her liking.

So back to a Windows PC, got Lenovo Yoga, brilliant touch screen 32 kb ram for about $1800 direct from Lenovo who have been brilliant. Wanted a Mac but Apple talked us out of it.

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If they had touch screens, they wouldn’t sell iPads

All about the $

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iPad Pro plus a keyboard cover is about as close as Apple gets. They’d be pretty similar in power and functionality as Lenovo Yoga, MS Surface Pro, etc. the keyboards are possibly less substantial, but the hardware is similar

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Microsoft like to pretend you can use the same operating system for a “computer” and a touch screen device.

They’re wrong, but it doesn’t stop them.

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Not sure I understand that. My Surface Laptop has a good touchscreen, or did until it broke recently.

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Re-phrase: you CAN use the same interface but fingers are low-resolution blobs that block what you are trying to interact with.

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I’ve never used the touchscreen on my Surface. Got the keyboard attachment thingy and used it as a laptop as nature intended.

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My new Computer Guru has made a copy of my files, but had to clear the system and reinstall Windows.

Next issue is that I do not know my email password and all details to change it are in old email files. So does anyone know if somehow I can get the mail password that is on my iPad.

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If you know your email logon, just go to the logon screen.

Generally there’s a “forgot password” option

Click on that and it should give you options to reset the password.

(from another old person who frequently forgets one or more of his passwords :slight_smile: )

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