A thief in the night, or why I will buy P3d V3
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:58 pm
A thief in the night day might be more accurate.
This goes back to last Christmas when I bought an SSD for my wife's laptop.
Mostly she surfs the net, plays games, and downloads viruses.
Well, last year I spent about three or four hours removing viruses. I then cloned her hard drive to a new SSD and installed it in her laptop.
She was amazed, and quite pleased, how fast her laptop had become. Removing viruses can do that to a computer. As well as a very fast drive.
But time goes by, she downloads more viruses, spills coke on the keyboard, and even into the vents in the back of the laptop.
One thing or another made her think that she should get a new laptop with that new operating system, Windows 10. After all a girl should have the latest toys, right?
Saturday the new laptop came. I got it set up for her and connected to the internet and the printer.
She still wants to hang onto the old laptop for a while.
So I did what every "real" man have would. I cloned the SSD back onto her old laptop drive, and put it back into the old laptop (that she's no longer using).
What to do with a fast Samsung SSD?
Get Prepar3d V3 anyway, and put it on it's own SSD.
I might as well. It's not like the $60 is going to break me. At least for now.
True, Prepar3d V3 doesn't have a lot of "real" changes. And reading the Prepar3d forums people either have major problems, or they love it.
And reading those posts from the people with the problems...... well.... I think that some might have a problem loading Ms. Packman.
Most of the problems that I'm seeing are "Permissions" problems, or things like we've all dealt with in setting up FSX.
Remember the problems back then? Things like random button assignments being set up for joy sticks, etc.
Then too, when I bought Prepar3d V2.1 it was absolutely horrible. It took about two or three months for updates to make it usable.
But in the end it became good enough (for me) to replace FSX.
The drive is now in my computer. Time to tell old man Martin that I'll accept his flight sim, and hope that he fixes it soon.
This goes back to last Christmas when I bought an SSD for my wife's laptop.
Mostly she surfs the net, plays games, and downloads viruses.
Well, last year I spent about three or four hours removing viruses. I then cloned her hard drive to a new SSD and installed it in her laptop.
She was amazed, and quite pleased, how fast her laptop had become. Removing viruses can do that to a computer. As well as a very fast drive.
But time goes by, she downloads more viruses, spills coke on the keyboard, and even into the vents in the back of the laptop.
One thing or another made her think that she should get a new laptop with that new operating system, Windows 10. After all a girl should have the latest toys, right?
Saturday the new laptop came. I got it set up for her and connected to the internet and the printer.
She still wants to hang onto the old laptop for a while.
So I did what every "real" man have would. I cloned the SSD back onto her old laptop drive, and put it back into the old laptop (that she's no longer using).
What to do with a fast Samsung SSD?
Get Prepar3d V3 anyway, and put it on it's own SSD.
I might as well. It's not like the $60 is going to break me. At least for now.
True, Prepar3d V3 doesn't have a lot of "real" changes. And reading the Prepar3d forums people either have major problems, or they love it.
And reading those posts from the people with the problems...... well.... I think that some might have a problem loading Ms. Packman.
Most of the problems that I'm seeing are "Permissions" problems, or things like we've all dealt with in setting up FSX.
Remember the problems back then? Things like random button assignments being set up for joy sticks, etc.
Then too, when I bought Prepar3d V2.1 it was absolutely horrible. It took about two or three months for updates to make it usable.
But in the end it became good enough (for me) to replace FSX.
The drive is now in my computer. Time to tell old man Martin that I'll accept his flight sim, and hope that he fixes it soon.