After you get along to Aldi for your new computer, o sung wu, you might consider poping into somewhere like Officeworks for the largest capacity 'USB pocket drive' you wish to afford... use this as off-line storage for all your data-ery stuff.

Two insightful quotes worth sharing:

"Don't back-up anything you're prepared to lose" and "You always have one less back-up than you need."

Buy a Mac?

What's old? is 50 old? Computers are easy and I was never formally trained to use one, yet I can now program in 5 different languages and have written several successful programs. Does that make me smart? I don't think I am, I usually score low in IQ tests, which are a crockaboloney anyway. I'm so thick sometimes I don't even know what a good IQ score is, mines around room temperature I think? However, I know guys that sprout how brainy they are but can't even cook scrambled eggs. The fools burn water and they're much younger than me :~)

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For 500 bucks? Now that's clever :~)

That'd probably ensure you get really good service, WmTrevor.

>>...you might consider poping into somewhere like Officeworks<<

Although it might also be considered an indulgence...

I've never paid more than $400 for a Mac, we have four here, two iMacs, a Macbook pro and an iPad, the trick is to find a company that uses them then get dibs on the obsolete models when they update. I've had three Macs over the last 15 years, none have ever broken down, the only reason I've had to upgrade is due to the changes in processors and their lack of compatiblity with the most recent versions of OSX.

Good evening to...LEXI, BELLY, HASBEEN, PERICLES, COSSOMBY, WM TREVOR,
JARDINE K JARDINE, RAW MUSTARD, and JAY of MELBOURNE.

Thank you all for taking the time to respond to this Topic, I really appreciate it. Yeah HASBEEN you're right, I suppose I am a 'slack old bugger' ? And LEXI I've noticed when entering a shop, nobody seems all that keen to serve me either - there again maybe it says more about me, than being old ? Though these days, I now have to avail myself to a 'pusher'. Still it permits me to remain ambulatory.

I had no idea BELLY ol' mate that you're well into Amateur Ham Radio ? Golly I've always had enough trouble marshalling my thoughts sufficiently for the correct use of our official car transceivers.

There's no doubt about it I'm amongst some phenomenal talent on this particular Topic with the likes of those good folk above. I suspect some of you may well be right, I'm just too jolly lazy to learn, that's also my wife's considered opinion too.

My grandchildren have even offered to give me some instruction on the Computer, which saw me declining their kind offer very quickly ! How would it be, this beautiful little girl running to her Grandma with this perturbed look on her dear little face and solemnly declaring how 'thick' her Grandpa is ? Thank you, but no thanks - Ignorance is bliss, for all concerned I believe.

Anyway, just to make sure there's nothing else is awry, I've been referred to the Neuropsychology Clinic, at the Repatriation Hospital, to undergo tests in order to exclude that other awful worry; that of Dementia, and Azheimer's. Seems my GP has a minor concern, thus he just wants to ensure it's nothing ? Me to, I might add ?

Several of you have mentioned 'Apple' as another computer option. Thank you for your suggestion, but I'm having enough trouble with the basics of this system, without embarking upon an entirely different network altogether.

Good folks, and thank you all.