After many trials and tribulations, so many, I had given up blogging about them. I’ve had a whole series of older computers from my business die off one by one over a few years. The majority have suffered death by upgrade, so i'm starting to fear those massive windows updates that never really worked. I guess one of the big problems was I had older hardware and it was stuck in Windows 10 land and not upgradeable.
I had replaced an old favourite PC in my studio with a slimed-down Lenovo box. It had a small ssd drive, supported by two hard drives,
adequate memory, it was an i5 and it ran Windows 11, I love it. It did have problems running a large-screen TV when using the second
screen/monitor or projector. But I do love the fact that I can have a large
screen TV on the wall, perfect to paint from. Most of the computer gear sits on a narrow shelf and I
have a couple of keyboards, one waterproof on my art table and a second wireless., that can be used anywhere. The table is set up such that
I can draw and paint on it or I can also use with one of two easels standing up.
I’ve also recovered an old sound bar so I can have good quality music as I’m
painting. Its also set up for running Zoom meetings and making You tube videos (if I have the time!)
I still use an older Windows 10 HP Pavilion desktop in my office as
the master for my network and main computer. It’s also got a small ssd drive
but has 2 internal and 3 USB hard drives hanging off it. It is currently
doubling as my master media storage, (eg photos videos and music). Unfortunately, it is misbehaving a bit, Finally I do miss my NAS storage, which no longer works on my
upgraded LAN (windows 11 is implicated) , I really wish I knew why.
Quite a while ago the battery died in my beloved little HP
Spectre. The little two-in-one that I took travelling, sitting on the couch or in
fact all over the place. It was getting quite old and only had a small 11” screen but
I still loved it and missed it dearly. The ordeal and potential expense associated with trying to get the battery replaced meant it is lying dormant.
I had a corneal graft last year and struggled a lot when one
of my two monitors on my main computer decided to go dark, very dark, too dark to
read easily. Taking the monitor off the computer and plugging it into something else showed
it was fine so I assume it’s the graphics card on the computer, or a graphics driver upgrade issue, just another
frustration with the Windows world. I’ve really had a lot of trouble getting
used to what now appear contrasty monitors and smaller text (OK it’s the
same size text just harder to see without an update to my glasses prescription
after the corneal graft]. I can only get about one hour at the screen before my
eyes feel strained. Usually not enough time when I’m playing with photos,
So I’ve been looking seriously at different screen technologies
and decided I like TVs with OLED screens. I used to like the Apple
iPhone style IPS format screens on my phone and Spectre, and was with LCD monitors. So I had begun
investigating screen type and size, by actually looking at them in stores. When I noticed an advert on
TV about the Lenovo Yoga Range, two-in-one style computers, checking the web
there was a model based on an Intel EVO i7 processor with a 14inch OLED screen. I was at Office Works on a different matter and so I checked it
out. It was very easy to read at a standard viewing distance. I didn’t take long
to decide it was time to get an upgrade.
So welcome Slaty, so named because it’s very thin, layered and a dark grey. I look forward to you becoming a great friend.
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