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Posted a version of this in the tablet thread, but the answer may well be a Chromebook so slight edit and repost: Need some advice with picking something for my mom. She's 75, and her eyesight isn't the best anymore. She has a 3 year old Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet. Her use is pretty limited in scope. She uses it as a kindle, and does usual old person internet things. Email, online shopping, facebook. To my knowledge that's about it. I asked if she ever watched movies or tv on it and she said no. Lately, she's been complaining about having trouble navigating sites. She has to increase the font size a bit to read things well and with a 10" screen, she ends up zoomed in too much for her liking. Apparently missing details on order pages and has done things like accidentally signing up for recurring orders, ordering 500 of something instead of 50. Annoying dumb things. She mentioned wanting to get a laptop instead so she could have a bigger screen to help out. She also said she expected it would cost $1500-$2000. This is when I pleaded to her not to order anything until I told her what to get. I can't imagine that she needs anything near a full laptop. I've looked into tablets, but to get the screen size she's looking for - things get what seems to be unnecessarily expensive. So I'm thinking that a Chromebook might be a better bet. So recs please? Would like as large a screen as possible. 15”+ preferred. 1080 resolution would be fine. Enough RAM that she’s not going to get annoyed at programs running slow. Not really concerned with harddrive/memory space – she’s all but guaranteed to not be running out of room. Edit : Been looking around at what's available and called to talk to her about some things. She 100% wants a touchscreen since she's used to her tablet. I described 2-1s to her and she doesn't really care if it folds into a tablet, but that would be nice as well. Going to assume that a 15" 2-1s are less common and likely on the higher price end - more computer than she needs, but that's OK. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Atomizer posted:Aside from it being an older device, it's still possible that you could enable Dev mode and use Crouton to install a Linux distro. I have even less experience about doing this on an ARM device, but it's still possible. There's info in the OP. As long as the software runs on ARM, the process is the same. Thanks. Ended up reading more chromebook articles than I ever thought I would and went with the ASUS Flip C434. She'll be fine with 4GB ram and 32GB storage, so even the base model will work out well for her. 14", but the overall dimensions make it probably a better size for her compared to the one 15" that I was looking at. Shipping it to myself to get everything set up for her since she's not used google/gmail in the past. Acting as her tech support over the phone is going to be an adventure. edit : of course I'm now instantly wondering about 8GB of RAM. She's honestly not going to multitask. May very well not even use multiple tabs. But still. That HP isn't on sale anymore, but the Acer is at $549 - only $55 or so more than I paid for the C434. She would NEVER need 128 gigs of storage, but that ram is tempting. I'm probably just over thinking this. Hmmmm. Looks like that processor is also considerably better. Half an inch of screen for double the RAM and what appears to be a considerably better processor. Edit 2 : JFC. Decide to switch over. Get Acer in cart at Best Buy. Go to Aamzon - Asus hasn't shipped yet. Request cancellation. Back to Best Buy - go to check out and get told it's actually out of stock. Immediately get email from Amazon confirming cancellation. Rad. Edit 3 : I swore at the browser and just kept re-trying until it worked. Order placed. Thanks, thread. I'll leave you alone now. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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