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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Elam Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: I honestly do not understand how people put up with Windows Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:35:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a82fc18766b046dadd3c60962a44c190"; logging-data="3032825"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19F/ADQuSWx9dMd4Dj/bkq9TGfsG5f3Qvk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:grkduJHslJ42a/qiamyy5saZDjA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3525 On 8/31/2024 6:42 PM, Alan wrote: > On 2024-08-31 14:23, Tom Elam wrote: >> On 8/30/2024 3:14 PM, Alan wrote: >>> I've been forced to use a Windows PC lately to do some work in Word >>> where Microsoft has not seen fit to provide the same UI in Word for >>> macOS as it has in Word for Windows; specifically surrounding what >>> they now call "Content Controls" and which any normal person would >>> call form fields. >>> >>> It's not that the feature doesn't exist in the Mac version of Word—it >>> sort of does, but there is no user interface for creating or >>> modifying the content controls on the Mac. Microsoft just left them >>> out! So, a Windows PC has become necessary to do this work. >>> >>> And I'm doing so on a somewhat dated surplus PC I got from one of my >>> clients, but it's a decent midr-range machine: a Lenovo T450s first >>> released in 2015. And I've updated it to Windows 10. >>> >>> But actually working on it is AWFUL. >>> >>> The screen is awful. The rendering of fonts is awful. The fluidity of >>> the trackpad and pointer is awful. >>> >>> Using Word with a pointer that doesn't move fluidly is awful. >>> >>> Understand, this is not a problem with understanding how to use the >>> Windows UI. >>> >>> I'm just comparing the quality of the experience of how it behaves >>> against the gold standard... >>> >>> ...and it is coming up as dross. >> >> It's an 9 year old machine designed to run a Windows version prior to >> V.10 and it does not have a SSD. Get a more modern machine with solid >> state memory. > > You think changing to an SSD will make the mouse move more fluidly? > > That the Word UI will suddenly stop being janky? > > Interesting. > > Until quite recently, I was running a MacBook Pro from 2015, and it was > great. > > And as usual, you get your facts wrong. > > The drive is a Kingston SV300S37A/480G 480GB SATA SSD. The specs say it came with a 500 GB HD or 256 GB SSD. Strange though that we have 2 2015-2016 era Windows machines here running W10 and neither has the screen/mouse symptoms you mention. Both have hard drives and updates/reboots are slow. But once up and running both are quite good. I run a graphics intensive flight sim on the 2015 HP and it is very responsive to controller inputs, totally usable. It's connected to a 27" HP display. Fonts render just fine on that large screen.