To: bt_dooftlook
Tell your relative to cough up a couple hundred bucks and buy a new XP machine and then put old Bessie out to pasture. Where a new machine can be had for around $400 it’ll be cheaper than fixing the old one or paying to deal with its issues.
2 posted on
04/14/2008 1:36:37 PM PDT by
PeterFinn
(Charlton Heston & Ronald Reagan - my two favorite Presidents.)
To: PeterFinn
“Tell your relative to cough up a couple hundred bucks and buy a new XP machine and then put old Bessie out to pasture. Where a new machine can be had for around $400 itll be cheaper than fixing the old one or paying to deal with its issues.”
Or at the least buy a copy of Windows 98 from Ebay and update if someone wants to keep a machine that old.
5 posted on
04/14/2008 1:39:29 PM PDT by
HereInTheHeartland
("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
To: PeterFinn
Tell your relative to cough up a couple hundred bucks and buy a new XP machine
PC's are cheap enough now that buying a more current one costs less than repairing an old one.
I kept telling a relative that. It finally sunk in. He was paying $100 plus for every service repair (which were things like installing a new modem).
Some of the reconditioned and recertified ones are around $300 with OS. The OS (usually WinXP) costs $125, so the pc actually only costs around $175. That's not bad at all. I have been considering buying one just to put some version of Linux on to play around with it.
22 posted on
04/14/2008 2:11:47 PM PDT by
TomGuy
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