{"id":168,"date":"2014-04-12T22:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-04-12T22:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T21:59:55","slug":"is-there-such-thing-as-a-crap-pc-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/12\/is-there-such-thing-as-a-crap-pc-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there such thing as a &#8216;crap&#8217; PC anymore ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most folks who work in the tech\/IT field, people are always asking for my opinion about kit, especailly PC&#8217;s.<br \/>\nMy reply was usually &#8216;how much do you want to spend ?&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, this got me thinking&#8230;&#8230;. is there any such thing as a &#8216;crap&#8217; PC any longer ?<br \/>\nWith the advent of cheap tablets\u00a0 (some are just piles of shite that will end up in landfill) the PC makers seem to be giving PC&#8217;s away that have better, and better spec.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For instance i3, 4GB RAM, 1TB hard disks on budget \u00a3350 laptops.<br \/>\nWhist the screen will be a crap 1366 x 768 resolution screen and the battery will probably last 3 hours (mainly due to all of the OEM junkware thats installed) you can still do far more than you ever will on a tablet computer device.\u00a0 Perhaps peoples habbits are changing and if all they do is use email and FaceTwatterBook then good riddance, It means I dont have to fix the bloody thing.<br \/>\nHowever people who actually need a PC for Media, iTunes, Photo\/Video editing then its still the best for the job.\u00a0\u00a0 They are eminantly flexible and can still be customised to do what you like.\u00a0\u00a0 Depite what the press may say, Windows 8.1 (with the new Update 1) makes switching between the Metro\/Modern Start Screen apps and traditional desktop a breeze.\u00a0 If you are still suffering the $5 spent on <a title=\"Start8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stardock.com\/products\/start8\/\" target=\"_blank\">Start8<\/a> will soon sort you out.<br \/>\nRemove all of the cack the thing comes with.\u00a0 Whatever you do dont buy or run McAfee or Norton AV.\u00a0 Remove it and Microsoft Defender will be activated which is fine for most users.\u00a0 Dont waste your cash&#8230;.. seriously&#8230;<br \/>\nThey arent the same as the crap that was pushed when the whole Netbook craze came around.\u00a0 Bit like 3D TV&#8217;s really, it was just a fad.\u00a0 Luckilly the Atom seems to be have relegated to small headless kit, tablets and even phones.\u00a0 Its even now pretty good \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo thats my opinion as of today, even thought I have just dropped the best part of \u00a31800 on an awsome Lenovo T440S fully loaded !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most folks who work in the tech\/IT field, people are always asking for my opinion about kit, especailly PC&#8217;s. My reply was usually &#8216;how much do you want to spend ?&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, this got me thinking&#8230;&#8230;. is there any such thing as a &#8216;crap&#8217; PC any longer ? With the advent of cheap tablets\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-computing","category-windows","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}