Comments on: Did I or Didn’t I Buy a New Computer? http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/ Author of the best-selling affiliate marketing training book shares free money-making affiliate tips. Tue, 22 May 2012 05:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jake http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85444 Jake Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:04:45 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85444 I'm with ya there: I've gotten into the habit of, before I hit submit, I quickly hit 3 things in order: 1) Click once in the text box (like where I'm typing right now). 2) Ctrl-A (selects all) 3) Ctrl-C (copies all to clipboard) In case I have to step back and lose my form entry, I can Ctrl-V to paste it in. I do this for almost all forms, not just Ros's here. It's a prevalent but occasional nuisance around the web. -Jake I’m with ya there: I’ve gotten into the habit of, before I hit submit, I quickly hit 3 things in order:

1) Click once in the text box (like where I’m typing right now).
2) Ctrl-A (selects all)
3) Ctrl-C (copies all to clipboard)

In case I have to step back and lose my form entry, I can Ctrl-V to paste it in.

I do this for almost all forms, not just Ros’s here. It’s a prevalent but occasional nuisance around the web.

-Jake

]]> By: May Mickelow http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85430 May Mickelow Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:43:13 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85430 After being out of touch with the computer world for a couple of years I abandoned my old Dell Petium (upgraded) with windows 95 on it and bought a acer with Vista on it. Wish I hadn't wasted my money and just bought a second hand computer with XP on it as I had used my daughter in law's newer Dell that she had with XP. I just thought that it was because I hadn't upgraded my computer skills for the first week or so......now I know better! I can't believe that Microsoft gets away with things like Vista. Switching to Firefox helped loads! Thank God for them and their add - ons! I enjoyed this post and the comments. Older isn't always bad, and what a good way to help the environment. After being out of touch with the computer world for a couple of years I abandoned my old Dell Petium (upgraded) with windows 95 on it and bought a acer with Vista on it. Wish I hadn’t wasted my money and just bought a second hand computer with XP on it as I had used my daughter in law’s newer Dell that she had with XP. I just thought that it was because I hadn’t upgraded my computer skills for the first week or so……now I know better! I can’t believe that Microsoft gets away with things like Vista. Switching to Firefox helped loads! Thank God for them and their add – ons!
I enjoyed this post and the comments. Older isn’t always bad, and what a good way to help the environment.

]]> By: Phil Davis http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85425 Phil Davis Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:53:29 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85425 Hi Ros, I too tired of the ridiculous prices of powerful desktops and started building my own systems. It can be a struggle, I'm not an IT, hardware or software pro but with a little digging most anyone can do it. My last $1,000 desktop has an AMD Phenom Quad core processor, 4Gigs of RAM, 2, 500Gig hard drives and a lot of other good stuff. One big and difficult choice was the OS and I went with Win XP Pro x64. It was a good choice though a few ancient software programs needed replacement. All in all I'm a very happy camper and I have a few thousand dollars left to play with! You should try it sometime... Phil Hi Ros,
I too tired of the ridiculous prices of powerful desktops and started building my own systems. It can be a struggle, I’m not an IT, hardware or software pro but with a little digging most anyone can do it. My last $1,000 desktop has an AMD Phenom Quad core processor, 4Gigs of RAM, 2, 500Gig hard drives and a lot of other good stuff. One big and difficult choice was the OS and I went with Win XP Pro x64. It was a good choice though a few ancient software programs needed replacement. All in all I’m a very happy camper and I have a few thousand dollars left to play with!

You should try it sometime…

Phil

]]> By: Leo S. http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85404 Leo S. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:29:00 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85404 Hi Ros, In fact I don't like to say this, but chances are that when you did take out your old card and put it FIRMLY back, it also should 'work like a charm'... May be not, but I wonder why your techi man didn't mention this 'solution' first of all. Anyhow, let this be a lesson for EVERYBODY in case of computer-failure (if not a software-problem...!!): after several years very often it's ONLY a matter of BAD CONNECTION(S). Disconnect - eventually clean with contact-spray - and re-connect can really do wonders... and save a bunch of dollars!! And it 's so simpel: watch carefully, if necessary write down the location of the connections and when everything works fine like last week, you can play the tough guy ... eh...girl! ;) Enjoy your savings! Leo S. P.S. In case of an incorrect CAPTCHA (I simply forgot) people lose their complete text! Quite frustrating. I think most of them wouldn't start all over...that's why I always make a txt-copy first... Hi Ros,

In fact I don’t like to say this, but chances are that when you did take out your old card and put it FIRMLY back, it also should ‘work like a charm’… May be not, but I wonder why your techi man didn’t mention this ‘solution’ first of all.

Anyhow, let this be a lesson for EVERYBODY in case of computer-failure (if not a software-problem…!!): after several years very often it’s ONLY a matter of BAD CONNECTION(S). Disconnect – eventually clean with contact-spray – and re-connect can really do wonders… and save a bunch of dollars!!

And it ‘s so simpel: watch carefully, if necessary write down the location of the connections and when everything works fine like last week, you can play the tough guy … eh…girl! ;)

Enjoy your savings!

Leo S.

P.S. In case of an incorrect CAPTCHA (I simply forgot) people lose their complete text! Quite frustrating. I think most of them wouldn’t start all over…that’s why I always make a txt-copy first…

]]> By: Rich http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85392 Rich Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:36:14 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85392 The Mac only has 4GB. I give the XP 2GB and Mac OS X 2 GB. This allows me to run Photoshop, Homesite, Skype, Win exploxer(a pig), MS Office, a programmer's editor, Firefox and a cadre of others at the same time, no sweat. And the amazing part is that it runs faster on this platform than on any PC laptop I've seen! Using Virtual Box as the platform on the Mac for Windows to run as if it were on a stand alone hardware. It's not perfect, you do lose a few conveniences like button shortcuts. But, the absolute BEST part! No more anti-virus software robbing your performance. If a nasty shows up, it takes less than a minute to revert to known good checkpoint and you're back in business. I used to lose work doing this til I moved my work space to an external eSATA drive. It's fabulous! And as an aside, the MacBook Pro laptop looks.... well sleek and s*%y. BTW, with your captcha plugin, you lose your post if you don't get the captcha right. The Mac only has 4GB. I give the XP 2GB and Mac OS X 2 GB. This allows me to run Photoshop, Homesite, Skype, Win exploxer(a pig), MS Office, a programmer’s editor, Firefox and a cadre of others at the same time, no sweat. And the amazing part is that it runs faster on this platform than on any PC laptop I’ve seen! Using Virtual Box as the platform on the Mac for Windows to run as if it were on a stand alone hardware. It’s not perfect, you do lose a few conveniences like button shortcuts.

But, the absolute BEST part! No more anti-virus software robbing your performance. If a nasty shows up, it takes less than a minute to revert to known good checkpoint and you’re back in business. I used to lose work doing this til I moved my work space to an external eSATA drive. It’s fabulous! And as an aside, the MacBook Pro laptop looks…. well sleek and s*%y.

BTW, with your captcha plugin, you lose your post if you don’t get the captcha right.

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85389 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:42:33 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85389 Hello David, You are indeed our winner so far! That's amazing and you should win the award for smart shopping too. I love those stories. They just prove that you don't have to have all the latest and greatest gizmos to do what you want to do as an Internet Marketer. As long as you've got a relatively fast internet connection, it doesn't matter what computer you're running. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Ros Hello David,

You are indeed our winner so far! That’s amazing and you should win the award for smart shopping too.

I love those stories. They just prove that you don’t have to have all the latest and greatest gizmos to do what you want to do as an Internet Marketer. As long as you’ve got a relatively fast internet connection, it doesn’t matter what computer you’re running.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85388 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:45 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85388 Never mind... I suppose that doesn't matter with Mac. I may have to start doing some research in that direction. Never mind… I suppose that doesn’t matter with Mac.

I may have to start doing some research in that direction.

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85387 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:38:45 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85387 Hmmm... I guess when you're forced to deal with the situation, you can make just about anything work. But are you running XP with more than 4GB's of RAM on your new system? Ros Hmmm… I guess when you’re forced to deal with the situation, you can make just about anything work.

But are you running XP with more than 4GB’s of RAM on your new system?

Ros

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85386 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:36:34 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85386 Hi Epiphany, You DO love your computer... personalizing her and everything! May she live long! Ros Hi Epiphany,

You DO love your computer… personalizing her and everything!

May she live long!

Ros

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/did-i-or-didnt-i-buy-a-new-computer/comment-page-1/#comment-85385 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:34:48 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-85385 Hey Jake, Interesting that you confirm what everyone is saying about the Dell laptops - but are able to make them work for you. Nice to have talent. I had a Dell laptop for a very short while, never ran very well, then replaced it with a VAIO. On my second VAIO now and love it. Hope to catch up with you at Affiliate Summit. Cheers, Ros Hey Jake,

Interesting that you confirm what everyone is saying about the Dell laptops – but are able to make them work for you. Nice to have talent.

I had a Dell laptop for a very short while, never ran very well, then replaced it with a VAIO. On my second VAIO now and love it.

Hope to catch up with you at Affiliate Summit.

Cheers,
Ros

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