eepc question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:31 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I'm just asking for a recommendation for a decent low-end laptop. I
> don't think I could talk her into Linux, but I would probably recommend
> a Vaio, Thinkpad, HP, or even a Dell with XP if she could get XP
> commercially.

Ah, so my earlier suggestion of the $330 Acer Aspire One might not be
ideal, but for a few bucks more ($400, iirc), you can get an AAO with a
sata disk instead of an ssd, with Windows XP installed.

> Possibly a Mac, but what I have seen of the Macs, they
> don't tend to be very durable. My daughter's has been in for repair
> under warranty a number of times.

I think she's been mistreating it. :)

Seriously, I have a 7 year old PowerBook G3, a 5 year old iBook (which I
gave my inlaws), and a 3 year old PowerBook G4, all of which are in
perfect running order, no problems with durability whatsoever.

> Martin Owens wrote:
> > You forgot to ask a question.
> >
> > 2008/9/30 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>:
> >   
> >> My aunt will be travelling to India shortly and she was asking me about a
> >> laptop she can get to check her email, and do some word processing. She is
> >> familiar with MS Word, but should be able to use OpenOffice. The issue here
> >> is cast and size. She is in her 70s, but is computer literate since she was
> >> head of HR for Time-Warner.
> >>
> >> I did offer to give her my XO while I'm in New York next week, but I don't
> >> think she would be comfortable with it. She'll probably end up getting a
> >> commercial laptop.
> 


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