Article in the Wall St. Journal yesterday. What sort of computer to get for a 12 year old. Answer: a Chromebook. Looks like a laptop, does NOT run Windows, and costs $300-$400.
Not cheap. I bought a brand new HP Pavilion laptop running Windows down at Staples a little while ago for $300.
And for a 12 year old? I can remember doing a lot of stuff when I was 12, all of it a lot cooler than websurfing on a laptop. Fishing, skiing, bicycling, electric trains, building tree houses, playing guns with the neighborhood kids, toy soldiers, plastic models, wood working in Dad's shop, hiking, shooting bow and arrow...
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