December 15, 2020 10:28AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 17,578
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My daughter had an ancient laptop that was so fricken old.... it was Windows 7. It booted up so slow that the fear was it would eventually not boot up at all. It took forever to do everything, download, Windows Updates, updating drivers, doing taxes, you name it. She didn't have a desktop... the laptop was it. She had mentioned that if she had a laptop, she could do some office work from home for extra cash, too. So, I got her a really nice laptop that I wish I had for myself. I installed it with a VPN, Norton Security (firewall, antivirus), and some other tools and utilities before giving it to her. Her birthday is in November so the laptop was really her birthday/Christmas present combined which she said she understood. She might have a token Starbuck's gift card under the tree but nothing more than that. I took a hammer to her old laptop and destroyed it. Kara absolutely loves her new laptop. Then for my son whose had some health issues lately and is a bit of a loner, he's been a gamer since he was about 18 mos old. He's had several Nintendo systems since the first one but hasn't had one now for a number of years. Kara told me when Mark was in the hospital a couple of months ago that all he talked about was how much he wanted a Nintendo Switch gaming system. Since I just bought Kara a laptop, I didn't feel right not getting Mark something comparable. So, I found a Nintendo Switch the other day and got that for him. He lives like a poor college student and never has money to burn so this is not something he would have ever bought for himself. He never expects anything so I'm hoping this will be quite the surprise for him. And yeah... they're both over 30.
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