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<blockquote data-quote="riverside" data-source="post: 172806" data-attributes="member: 14054">Your points are spot on. That brings us around to a distinct lack of knowledge by many users. While the younger generation has literally grown up with personal computers beginning in elementary school, older users who haven't had to learn through vocation or serious hobbies are generally limited to using email, the net and perhaps some forums/games. Maintenance? When it doesn't work or gets so slow as to be irritating they call the &quot;computer specialist&quot; from whatever advertisement sticks in their minds or ask a friend and pay the price. Most computer literate people I know (including myself) quickly learned the &quot;I'm not familiar with that model/operating system/etc., better call a pro&quot; out of self-protection. I'd venture a guess you do the maintenance on your spousal unit's Dell or that XP would be so clogged after 10+ years as to be unusable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="riverside, post: 172806, member: 14054"] Your points are spot on. That brings us around to a distinct lack of knowledge by many users. While the younger generation has literally grown up with personal computers beginning in elementary school, older users who haven't had to learn through vocation or serious hobbies are generally limited to using email, the net and perhaps some forums/games. Maintenance? When it doesn't work or gets so slow as to be irritating they call the "computer specialist" from whatever advertisement sticks in their minds or ask a friend and pay the price. Most computer literate people I know (including myself) quickly learned the "I'm not familiar with that model/operating system/etc., better call a pro" out of self-protection. I'd venture a guess you do the maintenance on your spousal unit's Dell or that XP would be so clogged after 10+ years as to be unusable. [/QUOTE]

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