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The time has come to encourage my grandparents to get a computer. Any suggestions for features or warnings specific to the older crowd? First pass consideration is a cheap-ish desktop with webcam and the biggest LCD they're willing to pay for.

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[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Well, Ubuntu sounds pretty hungry - you couldn't go back too far. Your new machine plan sounds best, but I do not want to go to Vista. Don't suppose I'll have a choice.

(One of my old machines is a 48k Apple ][, which was a pretty big machine for its day - they were selling a lot of 16k machines and I think started out with 4k. And that wasn't much because they used 1k for display and more for other system purposes. It was a beautiful machine. Ran Visicalc just fine.)