racedude1984
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Just wanna get some thoughts and opinions about kids and computers. I'm kinda the family computer guru. I like tinkering with computer and spend quite a bit of time on the computer. My daughter (Angelina) has always been involved with computers. When she was 2 we gave her a broken keyboard to beat on. She loved doing that because she always seen me on a keyboard. Now she is 5 she loves getting onto the computer. We let her play educational games. She is able to access the internet on her own and loves going to disney.com, pbskids.com and other websites. When she was almost 4 my step father who is a macintosh guy had rebuilt her an older mac book to play with and she loves it. We loaded it with games and fun things. The macbook is kinda slow and can't run all the games and she gets frustrated because it's slow. Last week we seen a little "netbook" at costco for 350. It has a 10.1" screen. We bought it for her and we get home started setting it up and I went to upload games on it and realized it doesn't have a cd drive. I was surprised. I guess it keeps the cost down. I networked my computer drive and loaded games on her computer. Well her screen is too small to play the games. We are going to take the small computer back. Now I'm kinda stuck, I looked up small computers and was looking for one with a decent size screen and a CD drive. I'm finding that if I wanna do that it's going to be a bigger jump in price.
I'm now stuck wondering if I should cough up the extra cash to get her something she can use better and ask myself if it's going to benefit her. She can navigate a computer great and don't wanna keep her out of the new technology loop. I don't mind her on my computer but it's hard to share.
So what do you guys think of kids and computers these days.
I'm now stuck wondering if I should cough up the extra cash to get her something she can use better and ask myself if it's going to benefit her. She can navigate a computer great and don't wanna keep her out of the new technology loop. I don't mind her on my computer but it's hard to share.
So what do you guys think of kids and computers these days.