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If your grandmother only uses Safari... why not buy her a Chromebook instead? More and more general consumers are using their computers as internet terminals.
by kunai 13y ago
If your grandmother only uses Safari... why not buy her a Chromebook instead?
More and more general consumers are using their computers as internet terminals. A Mac or any fully-fledged desktop machine is overkill for that, and the Chrome OS interface is very, VERY usable for a grandmother. My grandma picked it up with little difficulty, and learned how to use an iPad without any assistance either. She's now downloading applications, buying music, and emailing plus surfing the Net on it.
A 13" MacBook Air just doesn't seem like the right option, especially considering it's $1199 when a Chromebook is less than a quarter of that ($249).
- Kluny 13y agoChrome is different enough from Safari that I wouldn't want to deal with teaching it to a 90 year old.
- kunai 13y agoNot really; Safari with the 6.0 update is markedly similar to Chrome. There's few differences left in all of the browsers. Most are homogenous with overlapping feature sets. Yeah, sure, Firefox has the advantage of extensions, Chrome has the advantage of Google's great services and webapps, and Safari has the plus of being bundled with every Mac, but in the long term, they're all the same thing.
- Kluny 13y agoThe missing search box is enough to confuse my mom. Safari has a search and address bar, in Chrome they're the same thing. My mom would ask where the search box disappeared to. I guess it's possible to set Chrome to have a separate search box, though. I've never tried it so I'm not sure.
- kunai 13y agohttp://imagebin.org/259223 http://imagebin.org/259223 There's no search bar in Safari anymore; the search and path bars are the same thing, just like Chrome. My grandmother didn't have much of a problem with it, all I had to do was tell her they both do the same thing now. She uses the iPad more but only because of the advantages of direct manipulation versus the small touchpad of the Chromebook.
- Kluny 13y agoHa, it's been a while.
- hollerith 13y agoYou mention your grandma learning about Chrome OS and learning about the iPad's OS. Which did she end up using more? Did she ever have access to both at the same time? If so, which would she choose to google something simple like store hours?
- kunai 13y agoStore hours, probably the Chromebook. She ended up using iOS more because of the versatility of it, but she still uses the Chromebook too.