06-04-2014, 07:15 PM
Michael wrote:
[quote=Article Accelerator]
[quote=Dennis S]
He has never used a computer except a few times at school before he retired from teaching. I saw him in Walmart and steered him to a Dell laptop with i3, 6 GB RAM and a 500 GB HDD for $350.
A $350 Dell laptop? That oughta work out well…
I've been buying low-end Dell laptops for years. I've always planned on just tossing them if/when they go bad. But, I've not ever had a Dell laptop have any problem except 1 needing a new keyboard when a key got stuck and I broke the holding device for the key messing with it. That cost me maybe $15 for a new Dell keyboard on eBay. I think I'm on my 3rd Dell laptop--I've just replaced them when new specs make the old look pitiful.
Is that a good thing, especially for a neophyte like the OP refers to?
And then there's Windows…