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Getting used to it again, after some time.

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EllanVannin Fri 05-Apr-19 09:04:20

Right now I'd say " rissoles to Windows 10 !"

Bathsheba Fri 05-Apr-19 08:39:16

I have an iMac (desktop) in my sewing room dining room, a Windows laptop and an iPad. The iMac has all my downloaded sewing and knitting patterns, and I also use it for Pinterest and other sewing/craft related sites.

I keep my laptop in the living room, tucked under the sofa, and use it to check into GN (among other things!) while having breakfast each day. It is weird with the different key placements, but you get used to it.

I don't use my iPad that much - it's main use is when I'm sewing, as I store pattern instructions in the 'Books' app, and can have this on the table next to my sewing machine - much easier than toing and froing to the iMac!

BlueSapphire Fri 05-Apr-19 08:23:31

I have a desk-top PC, a laptop, and a Kindle Fire, but I use my Kindle the most (as I can sit comfortably in an armchair in the sitting room!).
The desk-top is in the study where it is too blooming cold! I only use that if I need to print something or use Word for documents.
The laptop is on the dining room table, and I tend to use that for online shopping and banking.
But I mostly sit in comfort on my Kindle, and do GN, Facebook etc.

Nannytopsy Fri 05-Apr-19 07:06:53

Do you find yourself tapping the pages of a book and wondering why they don’t turn? Too long on the Kindle! ?

Willow500 Fri 05-Apr-19 07:04:48

BlueBelle I've also done this - you're not alone grin

BlueBelle Fri 05-Apr-19 07:02:38

I feel so wrong on a laptop now and even tried tapping the screen the other day Mind you I found myself with my finger and thumb trying to enlarge the page I was reading on my book recently so there’s absolutely NO hope for me

Willow500 Fri 05-Apr-19 06:31:02

I use both an iMac and a normal Window pc and you're right that some of the keys are different. I've had this Mac for 9 years now and still get lost in the system at times - pretty sure my other half would get far too frustrated with it! I have an iPad as well as an Amazon fire and use them for different things but rarely anything I need to type much on as I make too many errors grin Enjoy your new desktop!

Day6 Fri 05-Apr-19 01:50:38

nanaK54 - I am howling here!!! All is quiet, and I have startled the poor cat!

Still chuckling to myself. Rissoles indeed! grin grin grin

phoenix I have an Amazon Fire which I tend to use on the go but much prefer the comfort of my armchair and laptop. It so much easier to write and correct mistakes on it. OH uses a desktop, upstairs in the 'study' which is the bedroom only big enough for a cot! It's a right mess in there with papers everywhere and all sorts of stuff on the worktops he attached to the walls. I close the door on it. It's nice that we have our own spaces for computing stuff.

Enjoy your new office and your desk! smile

nanaK54 Thu 04-Apr-19 22:37:16

grin

phoenix Thu 04-Apr-19 22:32:54

Oh, I think I might have got that wrong! blush

phoenix Thu 04-Apr-19 22:31:55

True, nanaK54, but I don't think anyone would be under suspiscion for the alternative that you might have in mind!

nanaK54 Thu 04-Apr-19 22:22:38

I'm thinking rissoles could have been much worse than missiles grin

phoenix Thu 04-Apr-19 22:19:12

Hello all, usual good wishes.

Well, after a very long time without a desk top pc, (just having the tablet) I'm now back in the world of having a keyboard!

Feel like a beginner! Looking for various keys, although that is not helped by the fact that I use a Mac at work, and Windows/Microsoft at home.

(You might be surprised at how different the keyboards are, especially with the placing of certain keys confused)

I do quite like the tablet, but the predictive text could be really annoying. Surprised I wasn't arrested, after asking for advice regarding "rissoles", which somehow became "missiles" shock although I suppose that North Devon isn't high on the list of suspected Islamic State sympathisers!

I will be glad to get back into my -old- morning routine, get up, feed cats, make tea (in that order, as it saves being tripped up) then take tea upstairs to the "office" (third bedroom, no bed in it) to check emails and look at GN.

Recently I have been drinking my tea at the kitchen table and doing the email & GN thing on my tablet, not quite the same somehow!

The "office has been decorated and looks lovely, I'm looking forward to getting back to my old habits.