# Recommend a Mac or other computer for elderly computer user?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-mac-or-other-computer-for-elderly-computer-user/603894>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 23, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-mac-or-other-computer-for-elderly-computer-user/603894 "2011-11-23T18:12:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-mac-or-other-computer-for-elderly-computer-user/603894/21 "2013-02-02T05:19:13Z")

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> [@aaronreiff](#):
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> My 75 year old mother has been using Windows since 3.1. Her computer recently died and the fools at Best Buy talked her into a MAC, since she was frustrated at the Dell lemon she had and Windows 8 is so different from 7. I am really angry that the only question Tom at Best Buy choose to ask my mother about is her use of MS Office. I’ll be stopping into Best Buy tomorrow to have a chat with the manager about their sales techniques.

I can’t tell what post this is supposed to be a parody of. At least I’m hoping it’s a parody. I’d hate to think some Best Buy manager will get to pwn someone so easily. At least make them work for it a little.

Edited to add: Oh, wait, obvious zombie troll was not as obvious as I would have hoped. Guess I got zwned.

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