No politics... but computers!

[malada]

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

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Heh, I make that mistake sometimes... of course, that's because I've got a 23" touchscreen monitor. [because it came at the same price as the non-touch screen one.]

[marahmarie]

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.

That was the reason I bought my touch-screen laptop - I kept touching the screen on my last laptop though I've never had any laptop with touch. I'd say I was just very tired so mixed the laptop up with my phone several times over the course of a few weeks, but I'd never done that before (smartphone user since 2012) for one thing, and also have a weird way of attempting to do things that can't be done as though I've been doing them forever, that tells me I'm going to have to be doing that thing one way or another sometime soon. It's like my own version of pre-cog. The laptop was ready for replacement, anyhow (older, slower, needs some keyboard I haven't burned to death, graphics are going out pixel by pixel).