Hi Amy, if you find an old laptop chances are that it will have a thai/english keyboard. But that's no problem at all as you can buy an english language only keyboard on Lazada for approx 400 THB. I just did that as some of the keys on my laptop-keyboard are stuck so I use a USB keyboard. Let me know if you need the co-ordinates of the Lazada keyboard purchase.
I've used the Thai/English keyboard before it's okay a little tricky back and forth and also Bill Gates needs money: for Factset everything must be doc format. You can switch back from docx but I've had formatting problems so I'm often forced to buy an Office subscription even though I think the company is evil and therefore don't like paying for their deal (also need silver light and some other things). I used to have a heavy preference for old American computers because they were often preloaded with all I needed (and I could work offline) but it's been real tough here: chip shortage equals no fixing old laptop, relative lack of travellers means no secondhand postings, a new computer is way out of my price range (starting 27,900 baht close to $1000) and impractical, since it's loaded with stuff I don't need/want and requires work to download the stuff that I do. I'm missing the good old days where some tourist would leave an Acer in a hotel room and the staff would sell it to me for 2000 baht after nobody came back for it...
Hi Amy, sorry to hear that you are on a tight budget. So here maybe a great money-saving tip on your internet-connection. In my neck of the woods there is no cable, so I use my mobile-phone as USB-hub for surfing the Web on my laptop. And for doing hat I bought a 20 Mbps dTac SIM-card from Shopee. It only cost 1.300 THB for a full year and I do get the full connection speed (so no buffering even when watching HD movies). You cannot buy these 1-year 10Mbps or 20 Mbps SIM-cards at a regular shop, and can only order them from Lazada or Shopee. But obviously they are a great deal and the only drawback is that you cannot prolonge that SIM-card, so at the end of the year you need to buy a new SIM with a new mobile phone-number.
Hi Amy, if you find an old laptop chances are that it will have a thai/english keyboard. But that's no problem at all as you can buy an english language only keyboard on Lazada for approx 400 THB. I just did that as some of the keys on my laptop-keyboard are stuck so I use a USB keyboard. Let me know if you need the co-ordinates of the Lazada keyboard purchase.
I've used the Thai/English keyboard before it's okay a little tricky back and forth and also Bill Gates needs money: for Factset everything must be doc format. You can switch back from docx but I've had formatting problems so I'm often forced to buy an Office subscription even though I think the company is evil and therefore don't like paying for their deal (also need silver light and some other things). I used to have a heavy preference for old American computers because they were often preloaded with all I needed (and I could work offline) but it's been real tough here: chip shortage equals no fixing old laptop, relative lack of travellers means no secondhand postings, a new computer is way out of my price range (starting 27,900 baht close to $1000) and impractical, since it's loaded with stuff I don't need/want and requires work to download the stuff that I do. I'm missing the good old days where some tourist would leave an Acer in a hotel room and the staff would sell it to me for 2000 baht after nobody came back for it...
Hi Amy, sorry to hear that you are on a tight budget. So here maybe a great money-saving tip on your internet-connection. In my neck of the woods there is no cable, so I use my mobile-phone as USB-hub for surfing the Web on my laptop. And for doing hat I bought a 20 Mbps dTac SIM-card from Shopee. It only cost 1.300 THB for a full year and I do get the full connection speed (so no buffering even when watching HD movies). You cannot buy these 1-year 10Mbps or 20 Mbps SIM-cards at a regular shop, and can only order them from Lazada or Shopee. But obviously they are a great deal and the only drawback is that you cannot prolonge that SIM-card, so at the end of the year you need to buy a new SIM with a new mobile phone-number.
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