On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:02:10 -0300, wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:40:30 -0600, graham > wrote:
>
>>On 2018-04-12 2:14 PM, Steve 'Weenie Wonder' Wertz wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:57:15 UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:55:02 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I bought a HP laptop in late 2010. It lasted about 3 1/2 years. I
>>>>> replaced it with a refurbished high end HP which lasted about 2 1/2
>>>>> years. I now have a Toshiba laptop... no complaints.
>>>>
>>>> I bought a Toshiba laptop 3 years ago. It constantly overheated. After
>>>> a year it wouldn't start up anymore. The shop had gone belly up by
>>>> then. I never had a bigger piece of junk. Conflicting anecdotes.
>>>
>>>
>>> My Toshiba laptop that I bought at Walmart four years ago soldiers on and on...including constantly lugging it around the city in a backpack...
>>>
>>>
>>I have a 10yr old Toshiba 17" that operates on XP and can't be upgraded.
>>So I use it only for microphotography.
>>I have an ASUS tablet that was a waste of money. It's pure junk despite
>>getting glowing opinions when they introduced it.
>>Graham
>
>Samsung tablets are the way to go, I keep a very old one in the
>bedroom for streaming pgms to the tv and an up to date one in here
>which is very useful in many other ways as well. I love Android, hate
>Apple, am starting to really object to MS but saw a great article in
>todays Guardian about the Huawei laptop which is similar to Mac but
>perhaps better. Probably go there if this one gives up the ghost in
>my lifetime
>
>https://tinyurl.com/ybkwuu53

Let's hope John Kuthe doesn't read this.