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Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G

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On 04/10/2025 12:32, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 10/3/2025 6:48 PM, David B. wrote:
>> On 03/10/2025 23:09, Tom Elam wrote:
>> [....]> I went to college for 8 years, earned 3 degrees, BS, MS, PhD, 
>> and worked
>>> continuously in my selected area of study from 1972 to 2023. Majored 
>>> in economics, minors in math and statistics. I know you are math 
>>> challenged, so that is 51 years of highly technical employment.
>> [....]
>>
>> I am well impressed! 🙂
>>
>> Do you use an Apple computer, Tom?
> 
> Thanks for asking. This is probably more than you wanted to know. I do 
> have extensive experience with Apple products, but let's start at the 
> beginning.

I appreciate you explaining!
> I used an IBM 360/65 in grad school (1969-72). Then IBM mainframes and 
> DEC mainframes at work. My employer from 1979 to 2003 was Windows-based 
> when the PC became a thing. They furnished desktops, then laptops, so 
> that is what I went with after a brief time using Tandy products at home.

Understood.
> I have owned 2 Apple Macs. A Bondi Blue iMac circa 1998-98. Major 
> disappointment. Mac OS 9 was so far behind Windows at the time I found 
> it useless. And, it crashed a lot. Second was a MacBook Pro. It was 
> purchased when the M1 version first came out. A very impressive laptop, 
> and I enjoyed using it even though I had to use Parallels to run some 
> Windows-only apps.
> 
> Unfortunately 2 weeks after purchase it crashed (infinite boot-loop) and 
> would not load the OS. I took it to the local Apple Store and after 
> inspection they honored my request for a full refund, including the 
> accessories purchased.

That all sounds rather sad. :-(
> The motivation for the Mac was a project that involving using a stats 
> package for a large regression model with over 100,000 observations that 
> my 3 year old Windows machine with a spinning hard drive was taking 
> 30-45 minutes to run. The Mac with its SSD ran it in under 5 minutes as 
> I recall.
> 
> As a result of that short experience I can certainly appreciate the 
> modern MacBook, M series processors, and Mac OS advantages. Especially 
> battery life!

Major changes!
> So today it's iPad 9, iPhone 14 Pro and the Dell XPS 15 (32 gb ram, 1 tb 
> SSD) laptop the replaced the MacBook Pro. They all get along just fine. 
> Most of my iOS apps are Microsoft or Google. I also use a cross-platform 
> 3rd party password manager that really helps out.
> 
> The XPS 15 replaced the MacBook Pro. It did my stats work in about the 
> same time as the Mac. More so than processor, the lack of SSD technology 
> was also a major factor with the older HP.
> 
> We also own 2 older HP laptops that have been upgraded to Windows 11.

It sounds as if you are well provided with modern technology! If you are
anything like me, you are probably delighted by the outstanding quality
of photographs taken on your iPhone 14 Pro!

You'd no doubt enjoy looking at them too if you had a 27 inch iMac or a 
Studio display!

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Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-02 09:59 -0400
  Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-10-03 01:19 +0000
    Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-02 18:48 -0700
      Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-03 18:23 -0400
    Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-03 18:09 -0400
      Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-03 23:48 +0100
        Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-04 07:32 -0400
          Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-04 17:25 +0100
            Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-06 17:07 -0400
              Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-06 16:57 -0700
              Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-07 09:31 +0100
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-07 08:49 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-07 08:50 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-07 11:12 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 07:21 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-09 15:23 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-09 22:20 +0100
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-09 18:10 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-09 23:30 +0100
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 20:06 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-21 09:07 +0200
          Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-10-04 11:21 -0700
        Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-05 14:08 -0400
          Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 19:52 +0100
            Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-05 15:48 -0400
              Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-05 23:01 +0100
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-10-06 14:00 -0400
                Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-06 20:12 +0100
              Re: Marion's "free" Samsung Galaxy A32-5G Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-06 17:09 -0400

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