Is Dropbox/other cloud storage safe?

[Virgorising]

what kind of a laptop is a $50 USD laptop?????????

XCACTLY!!!!

 

[Cerb]

what kind of a laptop is a $50 USD laptop?????????

Used, sold as-is, usually with something easy to fix broken. I would typically not exceed $50 until I needed a new battery. Or, just really old laptops nobody else wants.

I recently spent more on my used Chromebook than on all my previous laptops combined, and even counting extra peripherals, I'm only barely over $250, yet my old ones were all Thinkpads . A display cable here, a DC jack there, the occasional new key cap, a spare HDD...

 

[Virgorising]

Used, sold as-is, usually with something easy to fix broken. I would typically not exceed $50 until I needed a new battery. Or, just really old laptops nobody else wants.

I recently spent more on my used Chromebook than on all my previous laptops combined, and even counting extra peripherals, I'm only barely over $250, yet my old ones were all Thinkpads . A display cable here, a DC jack there, the occasional new key cap, a spare HDD...

Wow. I so admire yr frugality and resourcefulness! It trumps mine! Bet U have planets in Virgo.

 

[G73S]

Used, sold as-is, usually with something easy to fix broken. I would typically not exceed $50 until I needed a new battery. Or, just really old laptops nobody else wants.

I recently spent more on my used Chromebook than on all my previous laptops combined, and even counting extra peripherals, I'm only barely over $250, yet my old ones were all Thinkpads . A display cable here, a DC jack there, the occasional new key cap, a spare HDD...

impressive! I respect that. being content with what you have is a treasure

I am spoiled. all i do on my laptop is surf the web and facebook and play cards online (spades)

look at my specs, I paid $3500 USD for that thing

 

[Virgorising]

impressive! I respect that. being content with what you have is a treasure

I am spoiled. all i do on my laptop is surf the web and facebook and play cards online (spades)

look at my specs, I paid $3500 USD for that thing

Wut? But a lot of that $3500 is those two, top of the line 1TBs SDDS. Well, some of it..... and, some of it is the Corvette.

 

[Cerb]

impressive! I respect that. being content with what you have is a treasure

Since I have dropped my Thinkpads, all multiple times, I would be paranoid with a notebook of any monetary value. I think you're projecting way more zen-like qualities than are there. I just can't spend so much for something that has to be easily replaceable, and that I don't use all day long (the keyboard and screen, FI, would matter a lot, if I spent than a couple hours a day, if that, on it). Dwarf Fortress has been, and still is, the most CPU-intensive notebook task I have, contested only by Blogspot blog page rendering (seriously, Blogspot blogs murder old CPUs!). Cheap is fine, except for the keyboard (the one thing I really miss from ye olde Thinkpads).

But, buying used ones that need work, and revitalizing them with Linux (or, just running Linux anywhere you don't need Windows), is how you can get usable ones cheap. If you've already been repairing others' computers, it's not much of a stretch.

 

[Virgorising]

Since I have dropped my Thinkpads, all multiple times, I would be paranoid with a notebook of any monetary value. I think you're projecting way more zen-like qualities than are there. I just can't spend so much for something that has to be easily replaceable, and that I don't use all day long (the keyboard and screen, FI, would matter a lot, if I spent than a couple hours a day, if that, on it). Dwarf Fortress has been, and still is, the most CPU-intensive notebook task I have, contested only by Blogspot blog page rendering (seriously, Blogspot blogs murder old CPUs!). Cheap is fine, except for the keyboard (the one thing I really miss from ye olde Thinkpads).

But, buying used ones that need work, and revitalizing them with Linux (or, just running Linux anywhere you don't need Windows), is how you can get usable ones cheap. If you've already been repairing others' computers, it's not much of a stretch.

Neither G73S nor I were doing anything Zen. We were getting and celebrating some good and uncommon things within you which exist. Again, I relate!

This works back to having eyes by Marcel Proust: being creative, never being hostage to commerce/convention and being resourceful.

It's all GOOD.:biggrin:

I never dropped a lappy, but have fixed those belonging to friends and colleagues who do the dropping. For openers.