Originally Posted by
allegro
Well, yeah, exactly. It depends on what you use it for.
My Mom uses her computer for email, reading the newspapers (via enews format, which is pretty graphics-heavy), Excel spreadsheets, some Word docs and labels, some PowerPoint, and some web-surfing. She doesnÂ’t need the RAM of a frigginÂ’ gaming machine; if it has expansion slots, I can install more RAM for dirt cheap. She doesnÂ’t need a laptop, she has a HUGE monitor because she has glaucoma. I can get a Dell desktop for $349.00.
I WOULD prefer to put her on an Apple machine. Why? She’s a friggin’ walking virus nightmare. All elderly people on computers are virus nightmares. (Actually, studies show that a lot of younger people are, too.) I had to turn off the ability to download or install any programs via Windows because of the crazy dangerous shit she “found on the Internet” that even anti-virus programs didn’t totally block. UNIX / Linux has more built-in damage control. But, she’s old and she’s hard to convince about learning something new. She’s already bitching about having to learn Win10.
I gave her my old iPad mini, and she LOVES that.