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If you really want to provide a very basic experience, there's always the chromebook but a computer you have more control over may be better (especially wrt screen size and resolution). Using only a...
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well have your mom go to best buy or the apple store and try both tell them to let them know her son is buying it so there will not be a sale that day. Do you know anyone where your mom lives to set...
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Ya kind of. Ubuntu is pretty intuitive these days, you really don't need to know much about it. There is kind of an app store you get your updates and programs from and then if you know a few UI...
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Point and clicking is the same everywhere. And OP could test out some versions in Virtualbox to see what is most suitable
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My mother can't type either, and I just gave her my old computer a couple weeks ago. She is learning pretty well how to type on her on. She can do everything she needs to do. Email, facebook, pogo...
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I would look around for a deal on a netbook. They can sometimes be had for less than $200.
Also doesn't that defeat the purpose of having a tablet?
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so where are you exactly?
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I'm on an island called Hispaniola in a town called Sosua, Puerto Plata, DR.
Sosua is a tourist beach town with several beaches and very active nightlife.
The attached pix show the location...
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nice I am going to st kitts next year
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Rocky the party animal!!! Looks like a very nice place. I bet tropical storm season is fun though.
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If you go the tablet route, I'd recommend an iPad. VERY easy for beginners, plus if you happen to have an apple store nearby they hold free classes for beginners. As others have said, she'll need a...
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Kudos to you.
I also hate seeing people getting ripped off at the big box stores, and, like you, I never get virus' of my own and all my practice comes from other people's machines.
I guess I'm...
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I believe some of the ultra slim TV's actually have this. It uses a separate dongle to widen the plug to a normal sized ethernet. This died out around the time wireless N started hitting...
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Makes sense. Thanks for the input.
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Thee problem with Linux, apart from having to acquire it and install it, which the OS is not in a position to do, is that the Mother's friends and neighbours won't be able to assist her.
It doesn't...
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You and I don't have much of a practical use for it because we've used computers all of our lives. We look at a tablet and say, "what is this child's toy" because we can't do anything on it but watch...
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Also, the next logical step was wireless.
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while this is true, you still need to set up the wifi somehow.. and getting WPS on a tablet to work is probably just as complicated as getting the password from the router (which would be hard...
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wouldn't a cheap netbook be better for her than a tablet?
And Im pretty sure tablets dont have an ethernet port.
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maybe so, I did think about a netbook, however I thought it would be easier for her to learn to use a tablet than for her (she doesn't know how to type) to learn to use a netbook or laptop, since I...
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:lmao: now that's encouraging! maybe there is hope still lol
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tablets require wifi or cell phone network
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I would not suggest a netbook, get a netop (desktop with netbook type specs) or an all-in-one like the dell one series.
the smaller keyboard on the netbook might be a major hindrance as well as...
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no; an ethernet jack is gigantic; I guess they could make a dongle to adapt a port or USB for a hardwired connection, but 99.999999999999999% of people using these devices are going to have wifi or...
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I apologize, I am completely blanking on what you call that :/
My mother wants her FIRST computer and I feel she would be better off with just a tablet for her needs. She would only be going to...
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You should probably get a wireless router if possible. It would be extremely annoying to have an ethernet cable plugged into a tablet.
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If you get her a computer/netbook/tablet and a wireless router and or cable modem, I would recommend you have it all shipped to you first. Then you can configure and set up things to make it much...
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Could you bring a pizza please? ;)
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That made me think...Why hasn't the Ethernet evolved into a 'mini' or 'micro' Ethernet, like USB had HDMI has ?
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hey I would help anyone out, i do it all the time at work hate to see people ripped off by big box stores, and it helps me out at work we don't usually get viruses so fixing them on peoples PCs give...
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"back in the day" I recall a PCMCIA ethernet card that had a dongle to connect to an ethernet jack. The downside? The thing was farking flimsy as hell. I remember having to put a book on the...
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While not cheap for the hardware it is, this I think would be a pretty much perfect solution. You don't have to worry about updates, or security. They are a very easy to use portal to the web.
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I agree an older laptop would be a good fit. Tablets are designed to run via Wifi or cell network. Wireless routers are cheap, this is probably your least cost option. It sounds like she already...
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Only if the OP knows Linux.
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The best clue in your question is this.
Force yourself to think back to the very first day you ever touched a computer and I'm sure you'll remember someone being there, showing you a few things....
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Netbook would be a better option. I am yet a find a purpose of having a tablet.
