Jvs wrote:
Brody
didn't realize this model was even that old.
I bought this laptop as my nephews xmas present, who lives over 1,000 miles away. He's only 8 years old and his parents are totally computer illiterate and won't be able to help him with it, at all.
So I have about 1 week before shipping it out to learn absolutely everything I can, about the capabilities, specs, set up menus, etc, because I'm going to have to walk him through it all, over the phone. Again, he's only 8 years old.
I probably would have noticed the dates, but I'm in intensive study mode, Combined with these really powerful pain killers my doctor prescribed, so thanks for letting me know.
I can't speak with as much knowledge of the G53, since I have the G74, but I truly believe the best way to send him a really stable computer would be for you to do a clean installation on it. Otherwise, I think you're very likely to be getting a lot of phone calls asking for long-distance help.
Asus routinely ships their laptops with outdated drivers and an overabundance of crappy, glitchy software. If these things just degraded performance a little, an 8-year-old probably wouldn't care or notice. But they actually cause serious, intractable problems sometimes. That can be difficult enough for an adult to troubleshoot when they're sitting right in front of the computer...trying to do this over the phone with your nephew would probably be hopeless.
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