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Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - Todd's keyboard - 02-01-2025
Folks,
It seems I am stuck in two literary traditions.
1) Blanche DuBois' "I've always relied on the kindness of strangers."
2) The hero's journey is frequently just trying to get back what was taken from her/him.
Might anyone be willing to part (for a reasonable price) with a no-longer-needed, still-running, Windows 7 laptop that has reliable Wi-Fi and a working HDMI port? I would dearly love to be able to use Adobe CS 6 again. (Mostly, Dreamweaver. The Affinity suite of software does an okay job of replacing Photoshop and Illustrator.)
Living in Canada, shipping has been a hurdle. (Truth be told, shipping costs more than some solutions I've found on ebay, Craigslist, and other sites.)
As it turns out, I need to get down to Seattle next weekend for a friend's memorial service. US domestic shipping might make things more affordable.
thanks, Todd's workaround keyboard
Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - special - 02-02-2025
Virtual machine? Parallels and similar solutions?
Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - Buzz - 02-27-2025
I have a ~2004 Compaq Evo N800c that was running great until several months ago...., then all of a sudden, quite unexpectedly, the screen went dark. HDD works OK elsewhere, so thinking something in the GPU/screen loop has gone wonky. Sadly, too old for HDMI, but has a VGA port for ext monitor. The built in wifi "b" adapter was slow, and failed many years ago, so we'd been using a faster cardbus adapter most of the time. Not sure if it's close enough to do you any good, but it's maxed out w/ 2GB RAM, and has a massive 80GB PATA HDD. No clue how to troubleshoot the video issue to see how viable it might be again, but if you want a "possible" project, LMK.....
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Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - Todd's keyboard - 02-28-2025
Buzz,
Thanks for the offer. It sounds like too big of a project for me. I'm having enough of a hard time trying to change the tuning pegs on a fifty-year-old guitar. One of the screws is stripped. So far, haven't been able to extract it.
thanks again, Todd's keyboard
Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - MikeF - 02-28-2025
Move the tuning peg question to "Tips and Deals" and you'll probably get some ideas...
Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - decay - 03-07-2025
Did PCs with HDMI run 7?
Re: Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7 - gabester - 03-07-2025
decay wrote:
Did PCs with HDMI run 7?
A valid question... I have a Dell Latitude 14z purchased in 2013, I think it originally ran Windows 8 by that time, it has HDMI. I have a couple older Dell and Lenovo PCs which have displayport... one of the first Google Chromebook models from Samsung had a displayport connection... I feel like you wouldn't reliably expect HDMI until Windows 10 shipped on almost everything... although Displayport => HDMI adapters should be common enough they don't usually transport the audio that built-in HDMI would.
The first Mac with HDMI was the 15" retina from mid-2012...
Windows 8 shipped in August 2012... so there is probably a small overlap of laptops from around 2010-2012 that shipped with Windows 7 and have HDMI on them. Before that it was all displayport all the time, except when it was VGA. There definitely weren't a lot of laptops with DVI as it was a substantial connector.