Our desktop pc will be 5 years old this summer. With the thought that we may downsize to an apartment in a few years, I decided to buy us a laptop. My husband built a nice rolling cart to place it on.
My sister-in-law has a Lenovo that she likes. After reading various reviews and comments online, I decided to buy the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 with a 16-inch screen. I also bought Microsoft Office for Home and Student to install.
I ended up ordering on-line from Staples. I ordered yesterday about 1 p.m., and the computer arrived at my house about 10 a.m. this morning. Yesterday morning I stopped in our local Staples store to see if they had this computer on display. They did but only the 8 GB, not the 16 GB I was looking at online. I was glad for the opportunity to see and touch the 8 GB as that was no different than the 16 GB.
I spent this morning and afternoon setting up the Lenovo. I am starting to get used to Windows 11. My desktop runs Windows 10. I see that the Office products also look different. The thing that drove me crazy was Microsoft wanting to put everything in the Cloud. I finally uninstalled it. I may load it again to sync documents. I have way too many photos. I had already used up the free space before I had finished loading music and videos (Power Points). I ended up transferring my photos, docs, videos from my external hard drive I use as a backup on the desktop computer. I will have to plug that device into the USB on the laptop once a week or so to keep it up to date.
We were fortunate that since we used Microsoft Edge already, it transferred our favorites bookmarks. And since we use Gmail, all of our contacts were still there once we loaded Gmail on the computer.
I am sure there are lots of tweaks to do and capabilities that I am yet unaware of, but I am pleased that the computer is functioning and I can navigate around though still somewhat clumsily.
The purchase of a laptop is more for space saving not portability, but I should move it around in our condo.
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