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skywaterblue) wrote2008-11-29 06:36 pm
skywaterblue) wrote2008-11-29 06:36 pm
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My mother is making cranky noises about getting a laptop because ye olde desktop is full of viruses and spyware. This is because she is not capable of maintaining a computer, my brother is thirteen and my father has apparently been looking at porn.
(True facts: you can download any old shit off the internet and not catch a virus for years. But look at porn online for five seconds and your box is now part of the Russian botnet.)
I'd rather she get a netbook because it would be cheap, but both of the models at Best Buy were 'chintzy' looking. I sighed and tried to do a trade, the new Sony Vaio CR in red for the computer I use now, but eight hundred dollars is too much. (I died inside, especially since Sony just helped me fix a problem last night and buying shit is the other reason she needs to buy a new one every three years.)
Which is also why I can't convince her to buy an Apple, even though dumb computer users should use Mac and it would keep me from pulling my hair out because I could just foist her off on the pimply kids who work at the 'Genius Bar'.
Suggestions? Maybe I should get a Linux netbook and then install OSX on top?
(True facts: you can download any old shit off the internet and not catch a virus for years. But look at porn online for five seconds and your box is now part of the Russian botnet.)
I'd rather she get a netbook because it would be cheap, but both of the models at Best Buy were 'chintzy' looking. I sighed and tried to do a trade, the new Sony Vaio CR in red for the computer I use now, but eight hundred dollars is too much. (I died inside, especially since Sony just helped me fix a problem last night and buying shit is the other reason she needs to buy a new one every three years.)
Which is also why I can't convince her to buy an Apple, even though dumb computer users should use Mac and it would keep me from pulling my hair out because I could just foist her off on the pimply kids who work at the 'Genius Bar'.
Suggestions? Maybe I should get a Linux netbook and then install OSX on top?
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BRIAN, WE DO NOT KNOW COMPUTERS. FIX THEM FOR US!
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