New Laptop needed. HELP!

[The Panda Nut]

I used Dell at work and they were all oK. We bought one for my daughter and it was awful and parts availabilty downright atrocious. Ive had lenovo atwork and again as you say...

My son says he finds AI is really useful at work. He can formualte an idea to deal with some issue or other and then discuss it. In his case it s finance based but it seems to be able to argue / hypothesise on anything using a wealth of knowledge. I think people who use it intelligently will find they get on at work better than those who just want to shoot it. LOL

He says it does sometimes make stupid comments, but it learns when he challenges it and ask why it arrives at a conclusion or other. He supervises quite a large team in several countries and also reckons it produces better work than a lot of highly educated and highly paid people. Its arguments have less agenda than many people so while not infallible its useful. I still just want to shoot it!

I like your comments re printers but find HPs offering cheaper than buying cartidges any other way. I think they send cartidges that are aiming to run out before they dry up or cause problems. You get more ink in the ones sent when you have a bigger print demand. This is a good thing as it costs no more. As a low use printer this suits us. Its easy to change the deal up or down and run the lowest cost. I suspect older hands might make a hell of a mess topping up printers from an ink bottle. I get in enough trouble without this!

 

[PuntoHowTo]

In the past old dells where not as good I don’t know how far back you’re going, but the ones I’ve had for the last 5 years through work are solid. Usually with a metal (presumably aluminium) body and very well nailed together.

On the printer front I probably use them in a similar way to yourself, also tend to go for HP printers as if you go back far enough I actually used to repair printers and HP back at the end of the 90s/early 2000s were easily the best. Not only that but the print head was in the cartridge which meant if they did dry out, it didn’t wreck the whole printer.

I threw away a few Epsom inkjets because the printer heads dried out.

I don’t do the ink subscription because generally i just buy super cheap replacement (non genuine) ink cartridges mainly because I tent to print text so the tone or quality of the black ink doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s black.
I have no criticism of the subscription model other than my skepticism of the companies motives.

One thing I really do object to with HP printers/all in ones, is that to use some functions you need to sign up to their services via their app, and therefore record your information when they really have no purpose to. But that applies to any technology that makes you sign up to be able to use the product that you just spent your money on to buy.
You like me probably prefer the old days when you bought something, used it and that was the end of that, the company that sold you the product didn’t need to record all your personal data. Doesn’t really apply if you sign up to there subscription service but is just another example of a company harvesting data. If I’m not going to subscribe I shouldn’t have to sign up