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Your three-year-old has her own computer? :confused:

EDIT: Hooray for timewarps! This is really getting freakin' tiresome...

so, apparently hubby bought me a new computer.......nice.

option 1
so assuming that I take it for myself, I could shift my laptop to the 5 year old, and her computer to the 3 year old and the 3 year old's computer to my mom, who has a POS that runs on Win 95 still (the 3 year old's at least has linux, which is pretty sweet)

option 2
my other option ( the selfish one) is to keep my laptop (since I occasionally need it for work......) and the new computer and leave everyone else as is.

option 3
another option still (proposed by the 5 year old) is to give her the laptop, and set her up a non-admin login on Ubuntu and that I can regain use of it when I need to (she must really want the laptop if she is giving up her admin status)

option 4
or I can leave them with the 5 year old's computer, let the 5 year old have access to the laptop when she needs it, give the computer my 3 year old is on to my mom, and keep both the new computer and the laptop.

vote in the poll.

also, if you have another suggestion, add it too.

You forgot option 5:

Horde all the computers. However I see a downside. Your 5 year old will come up with some plan to get all the computers for herself. You have been warned! :eek:

If it were me I would keep the laptop ... pick the best of the two kids computers and combine the two of their uses on it then give my mom the left over

I like kids being able to learn on the computer but if your mom is going to get use out of the computer I would give her priority.

Also as for not giving the laptop out I am sure your kids are responsible and all but it takes just one drop to break something vital on one, they are just not as robust. It only takes one accident.

Your three-year-old has her own computer? :confused:

EDIT: Hooray for timewarps! This is really getting freakin' tiresome...

she does, but it's craptastic. it's what we made out of left over parts from upgrading other computers, my 5 year old's is my hand-me-down from when I got a laptop, and my laptop is a hand-me-down from when hubby got a new laptop.

You forgot option 5:

Horde all the computers. However I see a downside. Your 5 year old will come up with some plan to get all the computers for herself. You have been warned! :eek:

my 5 year old has already been plotting her first statement was

"since you weren't really unhappy with your laptop, you don't really need a new desktop and since you gave me your old 19 inch monitor you would be stuck with that 15 inch that's in the garage, unless you stole sissy's 17 inch and then really that's not much of a step up from the display on the laptop you have already"

she thinks I am stupid right?:p

that sounds like what I thought........I had a painful flash of a broken LCD, you just don't recover from that.

Agreed, its just too easy college students do it all the time hell I have almost done it myself and I am careful

Drinks on the keyboard are bad!

that sounds like what I thought........I had a painful flash of a broken LCD, you just don't recover from that.

Agreed, its just too easy college students do it all the time hell I have almost done it myself and I am careful

Drinks on the keyboard are bad!

If it were me I would keep the laptop ... pick the best of the two kids computers and combine the two of their uses on it then give my mom the left over

I like kids being able to learn on the computer but if your mom is going to get use out of the computer I would give her priority.

Also as for not giving the laptop out I am sure your kids are responsible and all but it takes just one drop to break something vital on one, they are just not as robust. It only takes one accident.

that sounds like what I thought........I had a painful flash of a broken LCD, you just don't recover from that.

Okay ... make the 5 year old get a job, give the 3 year old to your mother, have hubby stay home and do your data entry on the 5 year old's computer ... no, wait ... what was the question? :confused:

haha.......I could give the new desktop to the 5 year old, but then? well, it's got all this pretty RAM that I really want.

Yeah, but memory's a gimme nowadays, you could spend a hundred bucks and dump more memory into the laptop. When I think back to the days of my 128K Mac in 1984 and what I have on my desk now. Oh, great, I just reminded myself that you yourself were a 3 year old back then, Smunkee! :eek:

Okay ... make the 5 year old get a job, give the 3 year old to your mother, have hubby stay home and do your data entry on the 5 year old's computer ... no, wait ... what was the question? :confused:

haha.......I could give the new desktop to the 5 year old, but then? well, it's got all this pretty RAM that I really want.

Yeah, but memory's a gimme nowadays, you could spend a hundred bucks and dump more memory into the laptop. When I think back to the days of my 128K Mac in 1984 and what I have on my desk now. Oh, great, I just reminded myself that you yourself were a 3 year old back then, Smunkee! :eek:

my laptop won't hold any more memory, and the type it uses is expensive anyway.

besides you couldn't pay me to open that thing up again, I loathe it, if it weren't an occasional necessity I would def. dump it on the kids.

Assuming that your mom's computer is really a piece of crap and she needs a new one, I'd go with option four. I know your kids are super smart, but I still wouldn't want to take the chance that the five year old would spill something on the laptop, or drop something on it, or drop it entirely... Congrats on the new computer, btw. :)

Yeah, but memory's a gimme nowadays, you could spend a hundred bucks and dump more memory into the laptop. When I think back to the days of my 128K Mac in 1984 and what I have on my desk now. Oh, great, I just reminded myself that you yourself were a 3 year old back then, Smunkee! :eek:

Try being old enough to remember the TRASH-80 and the VIC 20. *sigh*

i say option 1, mostly because i know option 2 would be confusing trying to get both a laptop and a desktop to be 'your computer'
fine if you're doing work on them but if both for personal use i know i found that really difficult.

and options 3 and 4 confuzzled me :(

Try being old enough to remember the TRASH-80 and the VIC 20. *sigh*

hey! my first computer was a TRS-80. It was a good computer *coughs*

it had extra floppy drives and a dot matrix printer!!!!! it lasted me well into 1986 when my dad brought home someone's burned out Tandy for me.

Option six. Mak it into a mega-computer with three keyboards, and four monitors, and...yeah.

Try being old enough to remember the TRASH-80 and the VIC 20. *sigh*

I did once consider buying one of those Timex things, $99 for the do-it-yourself kit or $119 fully assembled. Tape drive additional.

Try being old enough to remember the TRASH-80 and the VIC 20. *sigh*

Oh Cluich, you ol' geezer. You know I <3 you anyways. How you been?

Try being old enough to remember the TRASH-80 and the VIC 20. *sigh*

I remember the Vic 20. It was the first computer I ever used, my friend had one. It only had a crappy tape drive that was extremely slow. They upgraded it to a nice brown C64.

Option 3 is the closest to correct. Give your lappy to your 5-year-old and set it up so that both you and her can admin on it.

my 5 year old has already been plotting her first statement was

"since you weren't really unhappy with your laptop, you don't really need a new desktop and since you gave me your old 19 inch monitor you would be stuck with that 15 inch that's in the garage, unless you stole sissy's 17 inch and then really that's not much of a step up from the display on the laptop you have already"

she thinks I am stupid right?:p

Sounds like the perfect reason to get a 24" LCD to enhance your productivity.

They're dirt cheap over there! $674 without even shopping around! Lucky buggers...

Option 7.2:
Give all computers to me!

okay, so the plan thus far.

I am now typing on my pretty new pretty-ness.

I am letting them keep the computer they have, I shifted the 17 inch monitor to it, I have the 19 inch on my desk and the laptop is going to be the "family computer" meaning that I can use it whenever I want/need to (like this weekend when I am going to the film festival, don't you guys want to hear about the film festival as it happens?!) and I will eventually (within the next month) snag me a flat screen monitor since this one is taking up way too much room.

It is a happy life with 2.5G of RAM and I know that I should never never never let my kids use this one.....because their RAM does not meet up, and they would stage a revolt.

okay, so the plan thus far.

I am now typing on my pretty new pretty-ness.

I am letting them keep the computer they have, I shifted the 17 inch monitor to it, I have the 19 inch on my desk and the laptop is going to be the "family computer" meaning that I can use it whenever I want/need to (like this weekend when I am going to the film festival, don't you guys want to hear about the film festival as it happens?!) and I will eventually (within the next month) snag me a flat screen monitor since this one is taking up way too much room.

It is a happy life with 2.5G of RAM and I know that I should never never never let my kids use this one.....because their RAM does not meet up, and they would stage a revolt.
*pats on the back*
I am sufficiently pleased with your decision. However, I demand to know the rest of your specs.

so, apparently hubby bought me a new computer.......nice.

option 1
so assuming that I take it for myself, I could shift my laptop to the 5 year old, and her computer to the 3 year old and the 3 year old's computer to my mom, who has a POS that runs on Win 95 still (the 3 year old's at least has linux, which is pretty sweet)

option 2
my other option ( the selfish one) is to keep my laptop (since I occasionally need it for work......) and the new computer and leave everyone else as is.

option 3
another option still (proposed by the 5 year old) is to give her the laptop, and set her up a non-admin login on Ubuntu and that I can regain use of it when I need to (she must really want the laptop if she is giving up her admin status)

option 4
or I can leave them with the 5 year old's computer, let the 5 year old have access to the laptop when she needs it, give the computer my 3 year old is on to my mom, and keep both the new computer and the laptop.

vote in the poll.

also, if you have another suggestion, add it too.

Your 3-year-old has a Linux? I would have killed for that a year or two ago.