Brain:
Have you tried sitting down and voicing your concerns? Since he is
on a fixed income, you have a VALID concern. Communication is very
important. Try talking to him.
Tim
On Jun 15, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Brian wrote:
Not a technical problem, per say, but a problem none the less.
My father runs an iMac DV SE 400 mHz. Recently I upgraded it so
now he is running on 640 megs of RAM, 160 gig HD and OS X 10.4.1
His sues are simple: he uses safari for most of his email, and to
search eBay and uBid. Thus the problem. Recently, watching me and
my iBook G4 he decided to go a step further in his ebay searches
and bid on an iBook G4. Well, he won it. he was thrilled, and I
was shocked, but none the less I set everything up for him and his
iBook is completely up to date now as well. Once he got his iBook
set up, there it sat, for several weeks now since he got it. I
have him on a wirless network, so he can take it wherever he likes,
but still it sits. He also throws fits over the 12" screen, which
I warned him about repeatedly long before he even ever bid on it.
In his kitchen, taking up almost his entire kitchen table is a
Compaq laptop, which has been used on battery power maybe 3 times
in the year and a half since he got it, running Win XP. This too
sits collecting dust since it no longer sees it's wireless card,
and is prone and infested with viruses, spamware, malware etc etc
etc, which I can not fully root out.
Back in his computer room, there is also a powermac 7100/66 which
has not been powered on for over 2 years.
The reason I post? well, he's gotten really hardcore with his ebay
and ubid searches lately, constantly barraging me with various
macs, asking my opinion on their prices, specs, etc. The man is on
a limited income, but has become obsessed with online buying, and I
think he's looking to get a powermac G5, or something else
expensive. Things have gotten out of hand, he doesn't even turn on
these computers anymore, doesn't find a use for them, doesn't take
care of them (when I say they collect dust I really mean they
collect dust- layers of it), yet he wants more and more, and I
can't get him to stop.
Anyone have experience with this/advice?
Brian
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