{"id":38899,"date":"2013-10-01T06:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/computer-buying-advice-advice.html"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:14:59","slug":"computer-buying-advice-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/computer-buying-advice-advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer-Buying Advice Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I.e.,\u00a0advice on <i>advising<\/i> someone on buying a computer.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno. I&#39;d still be reluctant to advise someone to <i>just<\/i> a tablet. \u00a0While it probably would satisfy a large number of people&#39;s needs, I&#39;d be worried about that one must-have game or app that they&#39;d get a hair up their butt about wanting that wouldn&#39;t be available outside of Windows or a Mac. \u00a0(Bigger screens and keyboards are nothing to sneeze at, either.)<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#39;m finally (shut up) betraying an increasing old-fogeyness in my technical recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the more fundamental\u00a0advice here is sound: never recommend anything you won&#39;t be willing to support.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>, via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/9zcxzJ\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/9zcxzJ<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-RBIMKwtbvN0\/Ukq_4duorPI\/AAAAAAAAfUY\/RtVUf_Sm7PY\/2013-09-29-compshop%255B1%255D.gif?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/RT7niciJfUL' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I.e.,\u00a0advice on advising someone on buying a computer. I dunno. I&#39;d still be reluctant to advise someone to just a tablet. \u00a0While it probably would satisfy a large number of people&#39;s needs, I&#39;d be worried about that one must-have game or app that they&#39;d get a hair up their butt about wanting that wouldn&#39;t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/computer-buying-advice-advice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computer-Buying Advice Advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,47,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-computer","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43838,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/snarky-advice-and-reductio-ad-absurdem.html","url_meta":{"origin":38899,"position":0},"title":"Snarky advice and reductio ad absurdem","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jul-14 9:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Do like.Reshared post from +Ralf Haringvia\u00a0http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/92606477500\/dunebat-coldswarkids-edwardspoonhands\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/no%2Bwifi.png.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22854,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/the-new-kindles-look-pretty-spiffy.html","url_meta":{"origin":38899,"position":1},"title":"The new Kindles look pretty spiffy","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Sep-11 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I've bought too many Kindles of late to justify running out and buying a new one (sigh). \u00a0But a few thoughts on the flurry of Kindles coming out. 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