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Dave and Chris discuss Google Earth’s 20th anniversary, streaming strategies, Nike’s focus on viewer engagement, Disney’s subscriber growth, NASA and Netflix, and more.
“News Pick of the Week” with Ralph Bond
Construction technologists are looking at lots of unusual alternative building materials. For example, corn cobs are making a comeback as an eco-friendly option. And old newspapers are being transformed into a wood-like material that is flame-retardant and waterproof. Here this week with news about combining fungi and bacteria to create a viable building material, is our Science and Technology reporter Bond, Ralph Bond.
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Gary in DeBarry, Texas asked “I am thinking of moving from a tower style computer to a laptop computer. Can I move everything from my tower computer to my laptop computer?”
Gary, yes you can.
Regardless of form factor, the two computers will be running fairly similar technology and as long as youre sticking to the same operating system, should be able to handle the same programs and files.
You could potentially run into trouble with the amount of storage you have on the new laptop. Desktop computers sometimes host most storage since theres just more physical room for storage drives in the case, having said that, thats not a hard rule, you may end up with a laptop with more storage than your desktop.
If you play higher end games you may also find that the laptop cannot run them at all, or cannot run them as well.
Generally speaking, though, you should be fine. People switch computers every day and dont have any trouble keeping their files and software from one computer to the next.
If you can, hold on to the desktop or its drives for a while in case you find yourself missing any files you need, but overall you should be fine. Laptops are smaller but not that much less powerful, theyll handle everyday tasks just as well with mainly the limitations being around highly intensive tasks like video editing, gaming, or running an LLM locally.
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