At 06:23 PM 1/13/99 +1, you wrote:
>> The younger the kid, the more they need graphics capability. Teenagers
>> don't really need it, no matter how much they beg for it (they just want to
>> visit whitehouse.com).
>
>I found it just the other way - as younger they are as less
>exact high res and high reality visions they need. An 5 year
Not high quality graphics, just graphics. a 3 year old, for example, who
has yet to learn to read (not Ward, of course 8^), would find a MS-DOS
based computer, for example, pretty useless. Simply because the
combinations of letters has no significance to the kid. Give the kid a
basic mac, however, and the kid can see a picture of the Rabbit from Reader
Rabbit and understand that clicking on it will start the Reader Rabbit
program.
Meanwhile, a 14 year old may not be *happy* with an MS-DOS based XT/AT, but
they can make use of it, writing papers, calling BBSes/internet shell
accounts, writing programs. As I said, your teenager may tell you how much
they need that T-1 and SVGA to write their book report, but they really
just want to access porno web sites. (I speak from experience, having been
a teenager once.)
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Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 16:37:35 GMT