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Thread #150041 Message #3495810
Posted By: Elijah Browning
28-Mar-13 - 01:35 AM
Thread Name: Art Thieme Offline- The New Laptop Delivered!!
Subject: RE: Art Thieme Offline-24March2013-help buy new one?
Hello All,
Again, this community is amazing. Can't begin to tell you what this means. To update on the current laptop, I've seen references to this issue being a corruption in the OS, a hardware issue and everything in between. I trust the fellow that last looked at it. The "how-to's" we've found on the fix are slightly shorter than War and Peace and have only a few more steps than Melville put into Moby Dick on how to gut a whale. Now "like the Mary Ellen Carter" the ol' girl could "rise again" with a wipe of the OS and a fresh sweep. What got us to this point is still an unknown.
What is for sure is what this laptop did for my Dad. He's been working on a new project, a book of collected songs, and Skyping with the grandkids. The security cable was twice as long as normal and covered about 75% of the room. On days he could get in a chair, he could use it on the table like a desk. On other days, he could click on a Netflix movie as is sat over him in bed. Close enough to "old" technology to be familiar to him and far enough ahead to be easy to manage and move. olddude, you really sent him a window to a world he is feeling less and less a part of. Thank you.
The specs on the machine you are looking at look wonderful. I've been keeping his old desktop as a backup, but honestly am not sure he could get much use out of it now. Still, even after five years, it is a good and serviceable PC. With your permission, I'd like to refresh the system to factory default, maybe throw on Open Office and some free antivirus, and donate it to either the nursing home if they can use it or some similar institution that can. Please let me know if you are OK with my doing that.
Thank you again for all you've done. I've got lots of words, none of them worthy. Thank you.
C.T. (E.B.)