Andy Hall wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:01:04 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Mark Spice wrote:
I know this is waaaaaaaay off topic but the guys here seem to be reasonably
knowledgable about a load of weird stuff so here goes.

Has anyone had any experience with Mesh PC's? Aged parents want to get
their first PC and there is a Mesh one that looks good on paper but I
haven't had any dealings with Mesh so I'm not sure what their service etc is
like. As I will probably be having to fix/identify any problems down the
phone from 300 miles away I want to minimise any potential cock-ups as much
as possible.

Cheers for any input

Mark


I am gong to say two things.

There are two utterly reliable routes to a BASIC PC.

1/. Find someone local who really supports and PAY WHATEVER THEY ASK

2/. Buy a cheap reliable PC locally, install LINUX, spend the time to
get it working exactly as desired and install at parents house with
training session.

Linux will do at vastly improved reliability all the basic things - web,
mail, word processing etc.

Of cpurse if they want to edit videos, download gangsta rap, and play
doom, its not the OS of choice...;-)

There's a third.

Buy a Mac.


I have to say, thats no bad option either.