OneMoreFarang

It seems you think that you found a portable computer with good sound. What a crazy idea!

Imagine you meet a guy in Nana car park and he tells you he has this great investment. And you tell him: I like to hear more about that, how about we go to your office. He says: Sure, and he walks with you straight into Lollipop. Yeah, sure!

? For normal users it doesn't make much of a difference if they buy a model which was just replaced with a new model or if they buy the new model. Both will work. If the older model is significantly cheaper and you don't need the newest and fastest and you are on a budget then go for the reasonable priced older version. It will do the job, for years.

ThinkPads, which are part of Lenovo, are still the best notebooks which you can buy. And many many so called high quality products are produced in China - even if they have an American brand name on them.

For games, and especially new games, you need a powerful PC with a powerful graphic card (GPU). If a PC is good enough for games then it is good enough for basically anything else. And if you buy a "normal" computer, which was not designed for playing games, then basically you won't be able to play games except maybe Solitaire or Candy Crunch or something like that. Even a half decent gaming PC is a lot more expensive than an office PC.

That reminds me about discussions about the programming languages C# and VB some time ago. Most people discussed the functionality. What you can do with which language and how to do it. And often the answer was: You can do it with both languages. And then I read an article comparing the culture of each language. Short: One language was used often by beginners and the other buy professionals, and lots of other "cultural" differences. Now let's look at Windows and Linux. Technically it is possible to do lots of things, and basically everything that normal users do, on both platforms. But who uses them? And who supports them? Most normal users use Windows. It is easy to use and understand and there are millions of how to articles from total beginner level up to specialist. Linux is a different animal. Like: What, you don't even know how to compile a kernel? And you don't even know what a kernel is? Now, how should I explain this to you... In which of these groups do you feel more comfortable? For most of us the decision should be easy.

I wasn't talking about the "good 'ol boys" - maybe I should have made that clearer. "They" in this case was about the general public, journalists, opposition parties, etc. And they gave her a chance. One reason the two last coups could happen and could happen peacefully was because the coups were supported by lots of people, at least in Bangkok. When the military was out in the streets I saw lots of happy faces and the soldiers saw lots of happy faces. People could have opposed those soldiers, even by looking at them like they were thugs, but that wasn't the case. Many people, in my area of Bangkok definitely the majority of people, welcomed the coups and the soldiers. And they welcomed them because the soldiers removed the criminals. I don't know if or when another coup might happen in Thailand. But IMHO it will most likely only happen if the soldiers are supported by a huge part of the population. If the population is happy then they don't welcome a coup. If they are unhappy and see no legal way to get rid of the criminal leader then what are the options? A coup! And that is what happened two times with the Shinawatras.