Drew Dowdell

@G. David Felt Oh my bad. On these ARM chips that’s nearly irrelevant as they have like 12+ of battery life anyway. It sounds like he doesn’t push it that hard.

He’s on 10. I don’t think they pushed the copilot features to that. With the Ram upgrade I could squeeze another 6 months out of it maybe if I really stripped it down, but there’s no more security updates for it, so it’s only a matter of time before it’s a liability.

For your purposes, this would be more than enough. BUT it won't play most games because it's an ARM processor instead of an x86. That said, for all of your regular "office" type work, it will be snappier than anything else at this price point. And it has the 10-key. Don't get me wrong, it's a cheap laptop, but it will be a great performing cheap laptop. https://www.costco.com/p/-/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3x-153-touchscreen-copilot-pc-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-wuxga-1920x1200-windows-11-home-16gb-ram-1tb-ssd/4000379412?langId=-1

Oh geeze. That's too old. It's a 4th Gen Intel and 7th Gen is the bare minimum. Bumping that up to 16 gb of ram might perk it up a bit, (1 or 2 of these https://amzn.to/3WSsFdn) but it would be a temporary fix. I don't think I could get 11 running on that. Linux Mint instead of Windows might be tolerable on it, but it would only be for web browsing and document editing, nothing more. Sadly, the best way forward is to wipe it and retire it. My 7th Gen that I hacked to get Win11 working on just barely runs it.

Lol you're not fitting in a Prelude.

It's been an interesting week when leaving one of my clients. I'm only there two days a week and there was a vintage Chevy pacing me outbound each day. These shots are about a mile apart. The Caprice was in exceptionally good shape with either the original owner or daughter of the original owner at the helm.

If you're looking for a comfortable fuel miser, the civic is the top of the list. It has the smooth low-end torque feel of the old V8s. It rides more like a luxury sedan than an economy one. Nicer leather and some faux suede and they could have called it an Acura.

If you're a light user and want a windows machine, look at the new ARM processor laptops. They're less expensive but have impressive performance for the price and some of the longest battery life you'll find on a windows machine. The downside is that if you have an older printer or scanner, therer might not be compatible drivers for it, so check first. We're kinda in the early 2nd gen of these processors, but Microsoft has committed to supporting them and even Microsoft's own laptops are using them. There are ways around that security limitation. I have an Obama era laptop that I got working on 11 and it runs fine. If you can get the make and model number of the laptop we might be able to give you some advice. That said, there's ways to clean it up without doing a fresh install.

I didn't notice that much of a difference, but I'm fairly limber. The difference for me is in the substantially superior interior and better power delivery. Aside from the extra surge of torque and minimal gasoline spend, you don't really know you're driving a hybrid in the Civic

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I miss sedans and big coupes. Sure, there are some left, but what's left isn't great. As much as we all nitpicked about some of the sedan offerings in the final years, most of them were pretty darn good even if they weren't what this crew thought of as "perfect". The Continental, Fusion platform and all, was still a very very nice car to wheel around. The Avalon and Maxima were built to eat up highway, the Crown is just kinda meh. The Buick Lacrosse Avenier was better than most Cadillacs from 10 years prior. Fusion and MKZ hybrids were comfy and efficient. Mazda 6 was a sexy sport sedan. Where are all the Eldorados? Where are the Rivieras? Why are my only two options the 4-series and CLE?

The Honda Civic hybrid is a substantially better hybrid than the Pruis.

I had my eye on that 7-series also, but I was going to be in enough trouble buying the 2-wheel BMW as it was. As I recall, the 7-series did leave the property under its own power.

And one of them stayed in the extended family...