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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
yeah most people don't actually need the number crunching power offered today - so their OSes use it up for eye candy. or they play games. but... well even when it cames to word processing only: I think I'd go mad when working on some paper of length on an eeepc screen. and even the average user would whine doing printing preparations for his self made "Our Jackie" family-dog calendar on such a thing.
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Way back when, we got my inlaws a PC. We got a nice second-hand 286 and a nice 14" monitor. Installed DOS on it, with a nice shell (freeware prog). My mother-in-law started playing with it and got herself a nice printer and later a nice little hand scanner. At that time, that 286 was really bursting at the seams.
So, we replaced it with one of our own computers (and got a new one ourselves, as we're both gamers). This was a 486. The scanner and printer got replaced by an all-in-one. My mother-in-law started to make t-shirts and got bigger pictures. So, that 486 was also getting a bit slow. By this time, we were in need of a new PC as well, so one of our pentiums was moved that way.
Now, they have a nice, new (or rather it was new when they bought it) laptop as they moved to Spain and they needed something up-to-date that would last a while.
Friends of theirs got that super-de-luxe-awefully-new-and-expensive P60 shortly after we had given that 286. They never learned how to use it. They never actually used it, in fact. It could do so much, that they had no idea where to start (it was their very first computer-like thing) and so they never really started. My mother-in-law started to really play with and constantly tried to do more. She wasn't overwhelmed with it all (even after several years of computer experience, she was overwhelmed when she got that brand new laptop!)