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Originally Posted by Zeke

I have an iPad and use it a lot casually. I like a big monitor and I also hate touch pads. The first thing I do with any laptop is dock it with a large screen (if I can with a monitor port) and use the USB's to connect a mouse and keyboard if there's room. A piggyback USB connector seems to not have any conflict with both.

I'm really a desktop kinda guy. I'm really not a phone kinda guy. I'm surprised at myself every time I use Google on a phone. However, the whole page as I would see it is not there.

I'm also a desktop kid of guy. I've never purchased/owned a laptop. I've been issued a laptop for work at a couple of jobs.
I think Apple/Mac is a good way to go, but... 1 Apple/Mac are more expensive than MS Win stuff. 2 Apple/Mac will have a learning curve for someone that's used to Windows that may be frustrating.

Chrome or the Linux recommended by Id10t may be the best, cheap options. I'm not sure what the learning curve would be on those, but they'd be cheap, and I don't think either would be as obnoxious as MS.

Originally Posted by Zeke

Exactly. BS. Get off my lawn MS!

Exactly. I was a diehard for MS Windows for a long time, thought it was far superior to most other OS for general user use with full compatibility. But the BS seems to have increased exponentially in the last several years.