On 03/05/2015 09:18 AM, David Collier-Brown wrote: > I have an elderly relative who is having real trouble trying to learn > how to use a iPad. Over about five years, she got to be able to write > a monthly newsletter for the Ratepayers Association and do email on a > Mac, but still had trouble browsing the web or doing anything more > complicated. She can do economic tradeoffs in her head, but has no > intuition about computers. > > Her iMac died, and she tried an iPad, but is having /even more > trouble/ than with the mac! > > The mention of thin clients here made me wonder: would she be better > just buying a new mac, or are there netbooks or thin clients that > would seem "just like the mac with different icons" ?
It sounds like she'll have problems with anything new, so I suspect she'd be better off sticking with a Mac to reduce the learning curve. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
