timemoveson
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2014
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- 153
The windows updates on a " New" computer can take days. I bought two refurbished HP desktops from Walmart, one with 10 the other with 7. The 7 machine sat for 10 mo before I even fired it up. I thought it was fubar, so I took it to a local small computer shop. Got it back in a week. machine was just fine , tech said " the updates took over 3 days online because it was so long between installation start up " ( 10 mo.)
Periodic updates are usually quick now.
The 10 machine runs just fine, as does the 7. both were refurbished with zero bloatware , and start-up /shutdown are quick.
Also have an acer netbook, came with 8. Hated 8 upgraded to 10. No Drama. Does OK, it's a slow machine due to cheap cpu.
Not an Apple shareholder or fanboy in any way but for those really considering full featured home computers over cloud only...
By process of elimination, I am the families' home-based "Tech Support" and always have been. A 6 Mac household for a number of years after being all Windows PC. Level of time and effort consumed per month on average for this Mac Tech Support = zero. My single work Windows laptop provides more grief than all our personal computers combined, by far! And a couple of my home users give their machines a pretty good workout, arguably much more than I do on my "executive laptop". I'm now rotating old (5+ year old) Macs to my other home because of their ease of maintenance, durability and continuing usefulness for simple services.