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My housemate's mother - who we affectionately call Lady - decided that after years of having an Ipad with cellular service decided to get real Internet.
Although I still had her old Window XP computer - even beefed up it would be slow and insecure.
So we gave her a Windows 7 Home machine that I had found in the garbage and resurrected. The hard drive was dead so I replaced it with a refurbished one. I then upgraded the box with twice the ram, replaced the dual core processor with a quad core processor and dropped in a low end gaming graphics card. To be honest, I went a little overboard but it's now a snappy little system that cost me about 200 dollars.
Getting the WiFi going was a bit of a problem but we got that figured out.
However, sitting her down in front of a 20 inch monitor she betrayed herself as an Ipad user. Instead of using the mouse she touched the screen with her finger. Ooops.
It's a nice little system (HP) and it isn't Windows 10 so she won't have to worry about constant and annoying updates.
-m
Although I still had her old Window XP computer - even beefed up it would be slow and insecure.
So we gave her a Windows 7 Home machine that I had found in the garbage and resurrected. The hard drive was dead so I replaced it with a refurbished one. I then upgraded the box with twice the ram, replaced the dual core processor with a quad core processor and dropped in a low end gaming graphics card. To be honest, I went a little overboard but it's now a snappy little system that cost me about 200 dollars.
Getting the WiFi going was a bit of a problem but we got that figured out.
However, sitting her down in front of a 20 inch monitor she betrayed herself as an Ipad user. Instead of using the mouse she touched the screen with her finger. Ooops.
It's a nice little system (HP) and it isn't Windows 10 so she won't have to worry about constant and annoying updates.
-m
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