Would you Spend £700 on an Extra 1.1 Inches? I just Did!

[ofafeather]

Following my request for advice regarding purchasing a new touchscreen laptop I had narrowed my choices down to two devices, a Huawei Matebook 2020 (16gb RAM, 512 HD) or a Microsoft Surface 3 (16gb RAM, 256 HD) (as recommended by Tim aka Ashdigger).

The Huawei was 13.9" at £999 and the Microsoft Surface was 15" but a shocking £1,699. Thing is I needed as big a screen as possible so as to display my family tree software in such a way as I could read it without squinting so that alone prompted the purchase of the more expensive of the two devices. It is also the one with the smaller hard drive but 512gb should see my right.

It arrived yesterday and i'm reasonably pleased with it though the power pack gets mighty hot! Oh, and it only has 2 USB ports.

Also, for the life of me I cannot get the damned thing to highlight text for copying and pasting. I watched many a YouTube video but it just won't work. I can highlight a single word but no sentence ;-(

On the Kindle it was a breeze, on my desktop too though that does have a mouse. Perhaps I need a mouse for this thing!

Regards,

Jay.

Congrats Jay. Regarding the annoyance of laptops in general, if you’re working in one place for any length of time, especially on tedious visuals - add a mouse when you’re doing a lot of work and have a table to work at. Bluetooth is convenient. Also, consider a second display. It’s a lot easier to use than it sounds at first and displays can be pretty cheap. Many LCD TVs work in that regard so it may work with a current TV that you have. When I am doing extensive work both of those things have helped me.

 

[STP]

It's always hard to gauge what the lifespan of a "device" will be. If we are talking fifteen years here, it spreads out the expense, and the presumed extra usage makes it worthwhile. If what you get is preempted by some advancement in technology, then it was a bad bet. Being on an 11-year-old PC, that was recently rehabbed by a tech shop, I'd say you may have done just fine. Yeah, the title on this post is X-rated -- a dirty mind is a perpetual feast, as someone else said first.

Many are predicting that science and technology over the next 10 years will surpass the past 100 years. If so, in 15 years that’s going to be an oldass computer ?

OP, you’ll be happy w/the 15” screen. Good choice ?