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iPod My 76 year old grandpa bought an iPod
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Thats right, a iPod shuffle for both him and my grandma (his wife) he also has an iMac g5 1.9 GHZ
Keep up the good work
FJ
My grandmother is 83 and I am about to upgrade her to my old tibook. She was the one who bought us our first mac to begin with. She lived with us when I was growing up and bought a quadra 650. Eventually she got the processor upgrade too. Old people love macs!
I seriously dont understand the ipod though. Most people that age still use vinyl. Can you get glen miller in itunes yet?
I seriously dont understand the ipod though. Most people that age still use vinyl. Can you get glen miller in itunes yet?
My grandpa is 84 and he has a Dual 2.3Ghz G5 and firewire digital interface from Miglia that he uses for iMovie work mostly. Are you saying old people can't have cool computers?
LOL...sweet...
I love that !
There still is a great following from the older folks. Up until the Mac, computers were something really foreign. The invention of the GUI gave the older people something they could really grasp and learn. I had fun having my grandmother play with the computer with me.
Also, when the government started issuing computers to employees, the mac was an instant favorite. Dos looked really icky, and windows was still crap. It is a shame that with the insertion of the isight we lost the last of the government workers. Some of her friends that are still working are actually buying them with their own money and having apple remove it. But that is another thread.......
Also, when the government started issuing computers to employees, the mac was an instant favorite. Dos looked really icky, and windows was still crap. It is a shame that with the insertion of the isight we lost the last of the government workers. Some of her friends that are still working are actually buying them with their own money and having apple remove it. But that is another thread.......
Maybe they use their shuffles for listening to spoken word (audiobooks + podcasts)?
I am myself some 45 years away from 76, but I (already?) can not stand music for more than an hour a day. Still, I have my iPod in my ears pretty much through the day while I am in the lab, most of the time with books + podcasts.
I am myself some 45 years away from 76, but I (already?) can not stand music for more than an hour a day. Still, I have my iPod in my ears pretty much through the day while I am in the lab, most of the time with books + podcasts.
My 83 year old grandmother has just bought herself a 42" Plasma, a DVD player (which she calls a DCD player) and an iPod and she loves these new technologies. But she doen't have a mobile phone she can't seem to get the "concept" of it.
haha.
Honestly, that's nothing...
MY 77 year old grandpa currently has, 2 iPod speakers, 2 iPods (one 1st gen, 1 mini), 2 LCD pc's with Vista, a 20" iMac & a 30" Plasma. All three OP's have laser printers. He also has at least 20 other miscanlious iPod accessories.
I have no clue why.
I don't even have that much!
Honestly, that's nothing...
MY 77 year old grandpa currently has, 2 iPod speakers, 2 iPods (one 1st gen, 1 mini), 2 LCD pc's with Vista, a 20" iMac & a 30" Plasma. All three OP's have laser printers. He also has at least 20 other miscanlious iPod accessories.
I have no clue why.
I don't even have that much!
76 year old mother has a shuffle and a 20" iMac G5. She gave away her powerbook 12" to anothe relative who had hers stolen. Previously, she had a G3 iMac that now is used by my sister. iPods for oldsters: books on tape...
My grandmother (late 80s) took a course in Excel a couple of years ago and now knows FAR more than me about spreadsheets!
Particularly embarrassing as I can dismantle and rebuild a PC while blindfolded
Particularly embarrassing as I can dismantle and rebuild a PC while blindfolded
