I don't know about you but I'd rather look at a computer at a store and buy it online... Most people say that and in fact most people do that.. When my mom went to get her a computer a few years back she didn't let me know that this was what she was planning to do.. So had she I would have been looking online.. So when she dropped that bomb on me I thought well I had just gotten a desktop computer so I still had an idea of what was out there.. But laptop/netbook (notebook) computers are a fairly different beast.. They run most of the time on battery power until it runs out of the ability to charge then it's buy a new computer.. That seems like the attitude most people take, the battery is ruined now it's time to buy a new one.. New computer.. I get attatched to the computer and with mom, she just connected to the outlet and kept going.. No more computing on the go though. That isn't a problem.. So now we are looking for a new one for her because of an issue with the computer seeming to be smoking, a no no in our house and in this instance it is a meltdown issue.. I have to admit it did smell like melting motherboard.. I've worked with electronics and heating solder to put things together, that's the odor you get, not pleasant but tolerable.. It has taken her a few days to get used to trusting the computer again, but she is back to facebooking again..
So I start the process of finding the new computer.. The chromebook keeps coming up in the search.. the questions I have about it are many and the number of people that use one is extremely few.. How few?? My sister in law works at a fairly big company in the office (corporate) and she doesn't know anyone who has one.. The thing I like about it is the small hard drive at 16GB is way to small for anyone who does any regular internet things (downloading) but she never put a single kb of anything on her computer.. I used it and put a little music on there, had the i-tunes program on there and a few videos but after all was said and done and I went to run recovery to try to fix it, I found absolutely nothing she had put on there.. so a small hard drive is perfect.. The one thing I don't like about her computer is the cursor is active as they are on all computers unless you deactivate it if that is even possible.. On a tablet it wouldn't be because there is no cursor, it's all touch screen.. that to me seems a lot easier to use, maybe I'm wrong.. But the drawback is the screen size.. She wants a 15 inch and that means a laptop computer.. The search continues..
Speaking of shopping sites (I wasn't but now I am), Said sister in law pointed me to a site called No More Rack... That's good to hear, but every now and then it still happens most of the time I'm either wearing the wrong under wear or pants or the combination and get the twins right where it hurts the most.. That's a feeling I hate to have and really don't miss at all..
Badge Henry
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