I'm travelling to help an elderly relative (in pain, sciatica, on pain meds) who is 83 and fuzzing mentally. She has been pretty good with computers for years, but is having trouble maintaining her PC. I thought an iPhone would be easier but she hasn't taken to it. So I'm looking for some kind of ultra simple phone (few features, big buttons, I doubt she'll text), and a replacement computer. She was ripped off by one of those flashing warnings that said "Your PC is infected with spyware!"; the assholes took several hundreds of dollars to "fix" it.
My first thought is ChromeBook, I know phishing is still an issue but updating operating systems, Flash, antivirus software etc. is just not going to happen. Making it web based will allow us to help her with files remotely.
But that's a guess, and changing from Windows will be confusing to her which is also bad. Any advice would be much appreciated.
My first thought is ChromeBook, I know phishing is still an issue but updating operating systems, Flash, antivirus software etc. is just not going to happen. Making it web based will allow us to help her with files remotely.
But that's a guess, and changing from Windows will be confusing to her which is also bad. Any advice would be much appreciated.