The Telikin: The Perfect Computer for Seniors?

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The thing is cumbersome, slow, and crappy. My friend bought one from a tv ad when he was drunk. He was told it was paid off, but his bank account kept getting billed. He died. Now the shit ridden thing which he left to help a disabled person won't work because the extortion money wasn't paid. If you are stupid enough to buy one, get a tub of vaseline first.
 

ehgill said:
The thing is cumbersome, slow, and crappy. My friend bought one from a tv ad when he was drunk. He was told it was paid off, but his bank account kept getting billed. He died. Now the shit ridden thing which he left to help a disabled person won't work because the extortion money wasn't paid. If you are stupid enough to buy one, get a tub of vaseline first.
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you do realise this thread is almost 10 years old !!
 
ehgill said:
The thing is cumbersome, slow, and crappy. My friend bought one from a tv ad when he was drunk. He was told it was paid off, but his bank account kept getting billed. He died. Now the shit ridden thing which he left to help a disabled person won't work because the extortion money wasn't paid. If you are stupid enough to buy one, get a tub of vaseline first.
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I am glad I never was lured into buying one. I went through many used computers both desktop and laptops starting with windows when they first started their Windows 95 in 1995. Computers changed very fast back then and with faster computers came new Windows versions. Win 98/SE - 1998, Win XP - 2001, Win XP 64 bit - 2003, Win 7 - 2009. I used Win. 7 until about a year ago when all my computers developed problems and I have been using Win 10, on a used laptop- Toshiba Satellite ever since. I loved Win 7, and could get around on it easily. It had my favorite game on it. It only worked with Win. 7. It was a disappointment when I switched to Win. 10. But the browsers ran pretty slow with Win. 7 since all the tech exploded. So I decided to upgrade my internet speed with the newest Firefox browser. Again, glad I didn't buy the
tub. :)
 
basefare said:
Computers are such a drag and so temporary. All digital systems and data are temporary. Using digital I've lost all my photos three times, as many documents as well. I went from PCs to Mac products. No matter, I'm just hard on computers. This last one I lost I had all backed up, but I didn't get it repaired and I didn't buy a new one, so I had nothing to load my backed up files onto. It's always this way with a computer. I trashed everything and bought a tablet, an Apple iPad. They are not worth what you have to pay for them, none of Apple's products are, but if you get one you'll pay their price.


I've got this iPad and I can't print with it, it requires a printer with an Air something or other. My printer doesn't won't work with the iPad. I can't download my camera onto my iPad, so I have no place to down load my photos. I like apple products better than PC, at least I thought I'd had better luck with them. But now I don't know, I think they all have planned obsolesce built into them. I guess what we ought to do (those of us who live on a budget) is buy the cheapest thing we can find that's got what we want. I've always had desktops until I got this oversized iPod, I've never had a laptop. I guess they're all one big hassle and a black hole that sucks up our spare dollars and are oh, so temporary.
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Nice to hear from someone who tells it like it is. You are 100% right about planned obsolesce when it comes to computers, smartphones, TV and almost all electronics. You pay big money for the latest and the greatest but as you are driving home, there is a ship coming from China which makes your expensive, credit card purchase old hack.

I like technology when it works for me but I do not worship at the temple of technology. I do not believe it will solve all our problems. We still need people and talking to a real friend cannot be replaced with video conferencing or yaking on the phone. If you sell your soul to technology you will find yourself in a sorry state. It's tough out there because our society invests billions in advertising to almost force you to keep buying and buying and buying and throwing out the old stuff.

We have a landfill problem in North American. No use giving lip service to the "Green Movement" when you are part of the problem.
 

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Anyone running a Mac with Monterey?
I have Catalina on my six year old Mac and that slow spinning ball is beginning to drive me crazy as well as few other things.
I read that upgrading to new OS would cure that but would like any comments on Monterey before I do so.
please and thank you
 
Mizmo said:
Anyone running a Mac with Monterey?
I have Catalina on my six year old Mac and that slow spinning ball is beginning to drive me crazy as well as few other things.
I read that upgrading to new OS would cure that but would like any comments on Monterey before I do so.
please and thank you
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Apple does a great job pushing out the latest OS and software to as many older Macs as they can, but that only goes so far. At six years old I'd say you Mac is one of the "Intel-Macs" and thus could easily accept an installation of Linux, which would breath years of life into your machine.
 
Nathan said:
Apple does a great job pushing out the latest OS and software to as many older Macs as they can, but that only goes so far. At six years old I'd say you Mac is one of the "Intel-Macs" and thus could easily accept an installation of Linux, which would breath years of life into your machine.
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I thought about that too.
I ran Ubuntu , which is Linux based when I had Windows and liked it a lot so might give Linux a whirl first.

I started with Windows 98 and really liked XP and 7.
W10 finished me with them and I must say my Mac has been trouble free for six years which is good these days.
....will do some investigating later..
 
ManjaroKDE said:
I will wait until I see how MicroSoft Office 365, browser-based apps and the cloud are going to affect my future technology needs.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-just-blew-up-the-only-reason-you-cant-use-a-linux-desktop/
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Yes good idea to wait...wonder if Apple will come up with similar excuses.

I decided to go with Monterey, dowloaded it, clicked install and it tells me the download is damaged.
Ran a repair check on my disk and it was okay so dumped Monterey download.

I still want to try Linux but I do not have back of my Catalina system. I need to buy a larger USB. My Mac Time machine wants you to buy their app to backup and I refuse to do that. I could partition with boot camp but on reading through some reviews not a good idea with Linux though I had no problem when I installed W10 with it. They only install basic system and wanted 350 dollars to download full systems with apps.
I wasn't that anxious about it so got rid of that too.....

..oh well keeps the old grey matter hoppin....Bang Head.gif
 

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