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"David \(Normandy\)" writes:
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| A lady goes into a computer shop and says "My son's family live in
| Australia. He says if I get a computer I will be able to talk to him free of
| charge on the telephone, send something called "e-mails" and read something
| he's got called a "blog".
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| What the lady wants to buy is not really a computer but a means of
| communicating with her family. A good salesman would realise this and
| appreciate from her description that she is not computer literate. He would
| not just plunge in with something like "Well you've come to the right place,
| we've got the latest hardware with choices of Vista, XP, Macs and even
| Linux. Pick AMD or Intel processors 32 or 64 bit with anything from 500 mega
| bytes to 4 giga bytes of RAM, internal or external or external high capacity
| hard drives with fast seek times and more USB ports than you can shake a
| stick at!

And exactly why it it any better to say "This runs the latest
version of Microsoft Vista and can do everything you need"?

Putting her off computers for life is more ethical.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.