We want to get a laptop for our daughter and have talking about it for a couple months now. I’m not really happy about her having unlimited and unsupervised access to the internet. If she uses a desktop then she is planted in her room and we can drop by any time to check on her. But if we give her a laptop she can go anywhere and do who knows what. However, as the wife pointed out, she has a cellphone and has been completely responsible about it’s use. And she insists that if we’ve raised her right we don’t have to over-worry, just be vigilant.
then there’s the issue of cost. Most good laptops are still around $1,500 and I’m not real happy about spending that much money on something that she could easily drop or leave sitting someplace and end up with it stolen. The wife wants to check into the new mini-laptops that have a 7″ screen and are only for checking emails, blogging and surfing the internet - not a gaming machine or something to do high level mathematical functions. So I’ll be shopping the mini’s today and seeing if they are reasonably priced and equipped for her basic needs.
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