I am NEVER buying a chromebook again. For sure, I will have to get a second hand something or other. £250 is actually a huge chunk of cash for me, I'm afraid , so if I do have to spend that, I will definitely be going for a secondhand machine with Windows. I don't care about speed of 'booting up' (it must be obvious that I am barely tech literate)...I just want to be able to post photos which live in a hard drive and not somewhere in a cloud. Whenever I have asked my offspring for help, no-one is comfortable with chromebooks and astonishingly, I have not managed to get anyone to sit next to me and actually sync my phone to the chromebook...(altho the phone is also a bit ancient - was a giftie from a forum member, in fact).
I know I am the problem here - I get quite tearful at feeling so helpless. But nothing really works at all and I am too anxious to commit to spending money (and this would be out of my garden budget) only to find I still cannot do the most rudimentary tasks.
So right now, I am wondering what I need the most - I have almost £200 saved which I was going to spend on bulbs (I bought none last year). This is absolutely guaranteed to bring me joy BUT, I already struggle with being shy and reclusive so being online is a wee bit vital otherwise I don't think I would speak to anyone apart from the offspring. What would be really awful would be to spend all my garden money but still end up unable to do anything apart from write whiney posts on message boards.
Plus, watching the news and feeling ashamed at being so wishy-washy and needy when some people are losing life, limbs, family members and hope FFS.
A 7 year old laptop didn't seem like it should be consigned to oblivion. I ride a bicycle which is over a 100 years old (1922 Sunbeam loop-frame), have several sewing machines ranging from 120- 30 years old - the one which still does the most beautiful, even stitches is my Singer featherweight, was made the year I was born (1956). I use a 50 year old vacuum cleaner, a 25 year old washing machine and my winter coat was made in 1962 (a lovely moss-green loden wool). Even our car is a 1997 Ford Ranger. I am despairing at the obsolescence which seems to be fundamental to all manufacturing post 1970.
Please, please ignore my feeble rambling, though...