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    dSLR thread

    No Merc. Once bitten, twice shy. Canon got $3200 of my money on an awful dud of a camera, damned if I'm going to fall for that scam twice. (I got about half my money back on the R by selling it 18 months later.) Bottom line is that I look through cameras as well as take pictures with them...
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    dSLR thread

    Speaking of the 5DS R, it is a magnificent camera. After owning an EOS R for more than a year, I have no intention of going back to mirrorless . The EOS R was rubbish, worst Canon camera I have ever owned by quite a margin, and I've owned plenty. My current kit - 5DS R, 5D IV, 1D IV, 7D II -...
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    dSLR thread

    There is a pixel density limit beyond which there really is no point in going smaller. That limit moves from time to time as technology (lenses, mostly) improves, but it moves quite slowly. Currently, the sensible limit is around about 70,000 px/mm2 - i.e., roughly 60MP in a full frame camera...
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    Laptop time?

    Having got all this lovely new kit, I won't be using it for another month or two. I'm off to the old house for a month or so shortly, and I'll take the old laptop because it is compatible with the stuff there (screens mostly, and there is a docking station) and I can't be bothered looking around...
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    Laptop time?

    Good tip Merc. That is what I would have done in any case, but purely out of habit as I cut my teeth in the days when it was impossible to boot off any drive other than the first one. This newfangled any-drive-you-like caper only came along ... oh ... mid nineties maybe? Meanwhile, I've...
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    Laptop time?

    It is a nice little machine. Not a patch on the solidity of the old T Series models, but better built than most of the stuff you see around from other makers. Mind you, at the price you would expect that. This is not a cheap notebook. The screen is remarkably usable for a Thinkpad, actually...
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    Laptop time?

    Why they have made them EOL I have no idea, Lunar. Such an obviously useful thing. But the WD ones at least (which are still available if you look hard enough) are very expensive. The very first thing I thought of was a portable NAS, but I have not been able to find anything in that line. Every...
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    Laptop time?

    Cheers lads. I've never really found much use for VMs, and none at all since I discovered DOSbox a few years back. But I'm an old OS/2 user and consequently developed the habit of having lots and lots of things open, a habit which endures to this day. RAM doesn't seem to be so much of an issue...
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    Laptop time?

    Well I just spat the dummy and ordered a new Thinkpad. It is a T15g, a current but outgoing model. Intel i7 10750 (a lower-end i7 from the Gen 10 family, which ought to be plenty fast enough for me) 16GB RAM. 3 empty slots, can take up to 4 x 32GB for 256GB, which I won't need. 1 x...
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    Laptop time?

    At the moment I'm on the track of a used Thinkpad T430, essentially the same thing as my current one but a 14 inch screen. (Which I prefer.) I'd need to add an mSATA drive (if I can still find one - they are a bit scarce) and max out the RAM, possibly replace the battery, but I'd end up with a...
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    Laptop time?

    Some very interesting answers here people. I'm learning a good deal. (Half of this new stuff I have to look up because I have made no attempt whatever to stay current since I retired.) I'll look at all of those. No hurry though, I'm just casting an eye over the water at this stage. Time enough...
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    Laptop time?

    Thanks Chewy. I don't really care much about screen size: it would mostly run shut using external kb & mouse and one of my big photographic monitors. 14 inch is best for me, but whatever is fine. Discrete graphics because image processing software uses the graphics chip to do its calculations...
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    Laptop time?

    It might be time I started thinking about a new laptop. The T Series Thinkpad is more than 8 years old now. It's still going fine but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and today, for the first time, I tried to install some software that I actually cared about which it would not run. (DXO...
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    Windows 11

    JTR, I have the need, once in a while, to run 16-bit DOS software. I find that it works very well under 64-bit Windows using DOS Box.
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    Access stand-alone

    Many useful and helpful answers, thank you all! We have a successful result. Access 2010 will be all she needs and it is working fine now. The whole idea was to avoid having to learn new skills, FB! Between the two of us we do have at least one bigger, fairly complex database, but that runs...
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