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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: I honestly do not understand how people put up with Windows
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:35:04 -0400
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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.