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Consider adding a Dock to the list.
I have a 13" Dell XPS, but at my desk I have a real keyboard, mouse and 3 monitors, one Portrait orientation.
Staring at a small laptop screen and hunched over a tiny keyboard late at night not a good experience.
Back in her dorm/study area, two screens and a good keyboard would be great.
One should be portrait for reading scholarly papers, and one for writing assignments/videos. The elevated screens help prevent the dreaded "programmer's slouch" and back pain. The larger screen helps prevent the eye strain.
Plus, if she is in a dorm, equipment locks.!!
Also, since she is study languages, really good noise cancelling headphone might be a good splurge.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Plus, if she is in a dorm, equipment locks.!!
Another idea might be to stick a Bluetooth tracker on each unit (portable, screen, etc.). They are ideal as poor-man's theft tracking devices, but may have some privacy issues.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Ignoring your remark about Dell :
I can only remark that you need to avoid any computer that still uses SATA style SSDs. Look for a M.2 NVMe SSD. They are many times faster that the older SATA technology, since they do not connect to a serial bus, like SATA. They plug directly into the PCI bus.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Why a PC? Get her a tablet with a touch screen and a detachable keyboard (or attachable depending on how you look at it).
If pigs could fly, just imagine how good their wings would taste!
- Harvey
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I've got a Surface Pro 7 (16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) and it's fine for carrying around. One nice thing about it is there's a micro SD slot behind the kickstand, so you can add additional removable storage space (maybe to hold movies?). I occasionally use mine to slice STL files for my 3D printer, when I'm away from my desktop. I got the Typecover, Arc mouse, pen and recently got the Surface headphones (version 1) from Woot for about $100. They're the best headphones I've ever had; I had to get another pair of them for my wife so I could get my pair back. The Typecover's OK for light typing, but nothing more than that. The pen's probably not worth it unless you're doing a lot of drawing; mine spends 99.999% of it's life sitting idle. With the power supply and all the accessories added to the bag I carry it around in, it's still lighter to lug around than the Dell Latitude laptop I've got from work.
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Reading Honey's image converter post in the Weird and Wonderful reminded me of this which I read earlier. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam | Caspar von Wrede[^]
tl;dr - Bunch of online HTML tools inject SEO links for all sorts of stuff, including themselves.
I'm always cautious of what data I give to online tools. Who knows what else they are doing with it.
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Explains some posts in Site Bugs and Suggestions. And I blamed it on MSFT's latest install.
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modified 8-Jun-21 9:11am.
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Ah. I missed your post of an hour or so ago. I came straight in to the Lounge with a "news flash" from local media.
I hadn't twigged that CP uses Fastly.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We do.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi all, whenever I turn on my Dell APS15 laptop I get interference on my DAB radio - I assume it's the wifi adapter that's causing it - any ideas as to how I can fix this ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Possibly not: Dell laptop plays havoc with DAB Reception! — Digital Spy[^]
It's worth suspecting the PSU - it's a cheap fix and a cheaper test - they can get noisy when they are dying.
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PSU on the Dell ? it's less than a year old
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All the more reason to check it - if it's defective it's also under warranty.
MS replaced my Surface Go charger after only a few months ...
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How do you check them Paul ?
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Unplug it at both ends, and see if the same problems happens on battery only.
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Turn the radio off.
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There's always one and it's always ...
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I was gonna say turn the laptop off, but same result.
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Yes I can confirm both methods work
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Funny claim company (7)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you may have given the game away
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Surely not!
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