I think you may enjoy one of the new Apple machines. The entire package is engineered so we don't have to tinker.
Maybe it's time to move to a new system?
bob
For one thing, I have what my laptop calls a DVD- device, which has decided not to read either DVD, nor CD, discs.
Second, I have an external DVD-WRITER, on my desk top.
The problem is that, everytime I go to a web-site, asking the very SIMPLE question: Why doesn't my device work as advertised?
What do I get back, from Microsoft, or any other web-site?
Is it ever the very simple:
Go into menu, go to programs, go to device, select device, and check if status is CAN record OR canNOT record
N-O
All I get back, from the internet is "What is the sub-processor of your unit", or "Precisely which part, of Region 1 are you located in?", or my personal "favorites" What exact category of discs are you trying to work with/copy/ OR what sub-type, of Mpeg 4 sub-category 17, section 25, sub-layer alpha are you trying to use?
NONE of the responses are in regular English.
Do people, on the internet really ENJOY making others feel like brainless "retards"? Why dont intenet users ever just say "If you use Windows XP, check file 25. If it is "bad", then dump it, and replace it with a new version".
Would it really KILL the computer geeks to use simple, regular, ENGLISH when communicating with other HUMANS?
OR, is it that compuetr pro's just love to feel "superior", by sending answers, which only other geeks will understand?
Maybe, this is a "Rant", but d*it, I want to set up my machine, for my purposes, and instructions, which no one, below graduate student level can understand, are NO help at all.

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