Hardware-wise, that Acer Aspire X (Model AXC-605G-UW20) they purchased at Walmart was sufficient. 'Just go find an off-the-shelf PC for under $400, it'll be fine compared to what he's got,' I told my mom (aka Dad's IT person in residence). I couldn't really recommend spending a lot of money to get it fixed. For example, a few years ago, my technophobic father, then age 75, got a new PC to replace his dying Windows Vista system, which he mainly used to print pictures. But in retail, it's a whole other world of crap. I'd never had major problems with crapware when buying PCs via mail order. There's a reason for that-crapware offsets the price of super-cheap PCs on retail shelves, even if it's only by pennies. It goes by names like crapware, bloatware, or shovelware because computer makers shovel bloated digital crap by the barrelful onto new PCs. They'll gum it up for you with 'free' software you don't want. Leave that to the computer manufacturers. After all, you haven't gummed it up yet with software, right?

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