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Taken in context it's not the age or the fact that it's a laptop. It's more that she was probably used to a Macbook Pro running OSX. Compared to that a Dell run
by zaphar 12y ago
Taken in context it's not the age or the fact that it's a laptop. It's more that she was probably used to a Macbook Pro running OSX. Compared to that a Dell running windows could rightly be called clunky by some. It looks considerably different too. Depending on the age of her son it's a reasonable question to ask.
- pbhjpbhj 12y ago>"Depending on the age of her son it's a reasonable question to ask." // This sort of phrase is not about her son at all. The statement is supposed to acquire the users agreement, as if the point is a truism, by demonstrating that even someone relatively naive to the field in question would be able to clearly see that the point is true - in this case that the laptop being used is antiquated. 2013 laptops aren't antiquated; no amount of "any fool can see" couching of that suggestion is going to convince me of that. It's just a badly judged piece of hyperbole by the writer. Edit: here's a mediocre Dell from 2012, http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i15R-1633sLV-15-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B009US2BKA http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i15R-1633sLV-15-6-Inch-L... - could anyone who has ever seen a laptop before really be confused that it's a laptop?