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From: cla...@snyder.on.ca (Clare Snyder)
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by: Clare Snyder - Thu, 25 Jan 2024 05:21 UTC

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:58:32 -0600, Jim Joyce <none@none.invalid>
wrote:

>On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:35:30 -0500, knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On 01/24/2024 2:44 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> On 1/24/2024 2:07 PM, knuttle wrote:
>>>
>>>> That is what my daughters keep telling me when I complain about the lack of storage in the current computers. On my 1TB drive I have right at 4GB of data. During the installation updates, the disk uses over a half a terabyte to install the update.
>>>>
>>>> Yes with a current computer I could buy a large external drive, but would I have the external drive when I need access to it?
>>>
>>> The drive would be sitting on the table in its enclosure,
>>> unplugged and waiting for you to plug it in. what
>>> could be easier ?
>>That assumes that you are sitting in your recliner in front of the TV or
>>equivalent. I have a Portable Laptop that goes places with me, many
>>times on the spur of the moment. ie I have to go over to the next
>>building, or to the church and need the hard drive that is sitting
>>beside my recliner.
>
>Is it your laptop or does it belong to the church? Most laptops within the past
>decade or more can accept a second (or even third) internal drive, sometimes at
>the expense of giving up the (mostly obsolete) optical drive.
Actually, most can't even accept an optical drive OR second HDD - and
a large percentage don't even have a removeable battery anymore - or
any I/O other than USB (in many cases ONLY USBC) ans possibly
microphone/headphone-speaker - but often only bluetooth for that too.
Business class "desktop replacement" laptops are the rare exception

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by: micky - Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:36 UTC

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:21:30 -0500, Clare Snyder
<clare@snyder.on.ca> wrote:

>
>Actually, most can't even accept an optical drive OR second HDD - and
>a large percentage don't even have a removeable battery anymore - or
>any I/O other than USB (in many cases ONLY USBC) ans possibly
>microphone/headphone-speaker - but often only bluetooth for that too.
>Business class "desktop replacement" laptops are the rare exception

Good to know about this. That's what I'll look for, Business class
"desktop replacement". I'll try to remember that.

Subject	Author
Re: Why one needs a dVD drive in his laptop after all, haha.	Clare Snyder
Re: Why one needs a dVD drive in his laptop after all, haha.	micky