[GTALUG] Netbook or used Mac?

[James Knott]

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.