I have a laptop computer which I use for everything.
And two portable drives I use for a rotating backup scheme.
I see people here and elsewhere buying stationary desktop computers like iMacs or similar Microsoft variants.
What do you use those for that you cannot do on a laptop computer?
Just curious here - wondering if I am missing something
I have not read ahead. My husband had rheumatoid arthritis. His knuckles were expanding, and the small keyboard of a laptop did not work for him. As I explained to him, we could easily attach a regular keyboard to the laptop and he said that that was stupid.
He was a man of many thoughts, and I miss him very much.
He did not need to be on his computer unless he needed to be on his computer. His words. I still have his flip phone. He never texted because if a laptop keyboard was annoying, a phone keyboard was impossible for him to work. I haven’t heard the term for a long time but there used to be a term called fat fingered for making mistakes on phone keyboards. He just couldn’t work them.
And there was also the fact that he was very used to a stationary tower type PC. He could work it, and I understood it enough so I could fix it when it needed fixed and software updating all that other stuff.
I also have no confirmation on this, and have been told by medical people that’s not how this worked, but several people told me after my husband died that they saw in him a mental decline and then he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Because I lived with him every day I didn’t see this but in retrospect and maybe because a number of people pointed it out I do see it now.
My sister also has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s and now Lewy Body dementia. When someone is in the beginning stages of this, which can be years it was probably seven years before my sister got to the point where she lost the ability to walk, making changes to how things work or how they do things is actually cruel. They know what they know and the world is getting frightening and you had them something new and expect them to understand it. They can’t.
There was so much going on in the last five years of my husband‘s life with me that there was no way that we could make changes so everything stayed the same which was good for him. And now that he’s gone everything has changed for me. And because I promised him, all of my changes are for the better.
I should add, I have a laptop that I use specifically for genealogy because you can’t do that really on the phone and also I’m a beta reader for a friend of mine and I need word. But after the extremely disappointing HP laptop incident where in two years it took minutes to load up, then when you were working on it, it wouldn’t transmit to the screen.
I bought an apple. It works. But in all honesty, I do everything on my phone other than those two things I am on my phone all the time. To the point where I watch TV on my phone, while I’m sewing, I’m listening to TV on my phone or podcasts or something. I’m on my phone for hours a day . Not just sitting and doing nothing on my phone for 12 hours a day.
