Chromebook?

[Catrin]

THEN I walked into Costco and saw the Acer Switch 12 (it's their 2-in-one competition with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and is several hundred $ cheaper. I WANT IT. Ahem, it is attractive, and Costco tosses in a couple nice bonus items - the optional pen and an SD card. I can't find a decent Chromebook locally to actually put my fingers on it to try - and the more I think about this the more I suspect I may need to stick with Windows but we will see. My current system is very robust, if seriously ailing, and and I am also one of those "windows go-to folks". So I'm considering my options. Regardless I need to replace this 57-pound brick that can't be updated or upgraded and is crashing multiple times a week. I don't want to have to do this again in a year...

I understand printing is certainly possible, but it's wireless. Chromebooks have very few ports - though they do have a USB 3 (at least on the versions I've looked at). A mouse would need to be wireless if you think she needs one.

[emily_in_nc]

I understand printing is certainly possible, but it's wireless. Chromebooks have very few ports - though they do have a USB 3 (at least on the versions I've looked at). A mouse would need to be wireless if you think she needs one.

Thanks, Catrin. She definitely needs a mouse and has a wireless one now, so that is no problem. The printer she and my step-father share is on their home network so she's already printing wirelessly. So, at least in theory, it sounds like it might work. But she's used to Mozilla Thunderbird for mail (as I am), and getting an 80+ year old person to change email clients isn't necessarily the easiest thing! Heck, even I wasn't willing to, as I have years and years of emails stored in lots of Thunderbird folders, and I wanted to be able to port them to the new machine. Using Gmail on the web just isn't gonna hack it for me.