It’s been upgrade time lately, with regard to new laptops, which both my wife and I use for different reasons. Since Microsoft has stopped their service on Windows 10, and my machine was not equipped for the upgrade to 11, I looked for and found a replacement on Amazon—an Acer Aspire 3. Nothing fancy, but faster, with more RAM and decent storage.
My wife had found a nice Lenovo Yoga at Best Buy but returned it a couple days ago because of some driver glitch involving the touch pad and touch screen.
I have become cognizant of a difference in build quality between the Acer and Lenovo machines—materials-wise, sound-wise, keyboard design, etc. The Lenovo, sadly, would have been a nice one to hold onto, but apparently my wife’s wasn’t the first one to have these driver issues.
The Aspire will work for me, since I basically use it for writing and watching woodturning videos on YouTube, though the sound is, in a relative way, pathetic, compared to the Dell Inspiron I had been using for the previous 7 or 8 years.
My wife is still looking, though she might have found something at Staples. It’s a different Lenovo model, so we’ll see what happens.
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