Not a technical problem, per say, but a problem none the less.
My father runs an iMac DV SE 400 mHz. Recently I upgraded it so now
he is running on 640 megs of RAM, 160 gig HD and OS X 10.4.1
His sues are simple: he uses safari for most of his email, and to
search eBay and uBid. Thus the problem. Recently, watching me and
my iBook G4 he decided to go a step further in his ebay searches and
bid on an iBook G4. Well, he won it. he was thrilled, and I was
shocked, but none the less I set everything up for him and his iBook
is completely up to date now as well. Once he got his iBook set up,
there it sat, for several weeks now since he got it. I have him on a
wirless network, so he can take it wherever he likes, but still it
sits. He also throws fits over the 12" screen, which I warned him
about repeatedly long before he even ever bid on it.
In his kitchen, taking up almost his entire kitchen table is a Compaq
laptop, which has been used on battery power maybe 3 times in the
year and a half since he got it, running Win XP. This too sits
collecting dust since it no longer sees it's wireless card, and is
prone and infested with viruses, spamware, malware etc etc etc, which
I can not fully root out.
Back in his computer room, there is also a powermac 7100/66 which has
not been powered on for over 2 years.
The reason I post? well, he's gotten really hardcore with his ebay
and ubid searches lately, constantly barraging me with various macs,
asking my opinion on their prices, specs, etc. The man is on a
limited income, but has become obsessed with online buying, and I
think he's looking to get a powermac G5, or something else
expensive. Things have gotten out of hand, he doesn't even turn on
these computers anymore, doesn't find a use for them, doesn't take
care of them (when I say they collect dust I really mean they collect
dust- layers of it), yet he wants more and more, and I can't get him
to stop.
Anyone have experience with this/advice?
Brian
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