Seeing how my father is still using the desktop they bought when I was a senior in high school (2002) I think its time for an upgrade.
last time I visited him, he was complaining of it being slow, so I upped the ram by adding a stick. he now has a whopping 1gb of ram (2 512mb sticks)
its time to throw the whole thing to the curb, but he wants to keep the monitor (one of the first flat screens, still 4:3) and the corded mouse and keyboard “they work fine” you know how old people are… :ham:
anyway. lmk if you have a decent desktop for sale, or know where to get one. would like to keep it under $300. thanks.
Dads can be such a pain sometimes. I hope I’m not a pain. haha. Once he realizes he can play farmville from places other than his desk he might change his mind.
+1 for a Tablet. My gf’s father wanted a new desktop too. Once I bought her a new ipad, we gave him her old ipad. At first, he was like “Eh, I probably won’t even use it” and now he uses it all the time. Watches videos on youtube, facetime the grand kids almost daily, plays games with them when they are over.
He says now that he doesn’t even use the computer anymore.
Those of you saying, “Replace his 2002 desktop with a laptop, or a tablet”… Do you have parents? If so, how old are they?
When it comes to upgrading computer hardware for anyone over 50 it’s all about as little change as possible so you don’t end up playing tech support for the next 6 months.
Stuff is cheap these days because most of it is all integrated onto a very small motherboard with no expansion slots,the boards are about the size of a standard mousepad now.
yeah it was quite the deal. couldn’t pass it up. thought about buying one for myself but couldn’t justify a need (I already have 1 desktop and 2 laptops that I never use…)
Don’t even try to get him to learn the windows 8 start menu clusterfuck. Just tell him to hit start and type whatever program he wants and it will pop up. (automatic search)
Or better yet, just install one of the many windows 8 hacks that brings back the windows 7 look and feel, at least until 10 drops and gives you that Win 7 feel back natively.
To be clear Windows 8.1 is the “latest” flavor of Windows. Although Windows 10 should be here in about a month, which brings back the more “traditional” start menu.
Honestly I love 8.1, the performance increase is great and anytime I need to find a program, I just use the search (Win+S). I spend almost no time in the Metro interface, although I do pin common programs to it.