Family tech updates help?
My kids are 13 (8th) and 9 (4th) and neither of them have their own computer. We have a really old (2010) iMac that doesn’t get much use, but still works for basics like watching a dvd, word processing or playing internet school related games (Jiji, AbcYa, and IXL) and a MacBook Pro (2017 or early 2018 model) that I bought for everyone to use last Christmas. I went with this model which is very similar to the current MacBook Air, but I wanted the model that was more proven and had all of the reviews (and macrumors.com still had it at yellow status).
Dh, myself, and Dd1 have iPhones. Dd1 got her phone at 12. That will be the absolute minimum age for Dd2 to get a phone as well.
We have an iPad Air that I bought as a family Xmas gift in 2016 (I can’t remember the exact model....it could use the pen but we don’t have it) and I later bought the Logitech removable keyboard but we haven’t used it as much as I thought we would. Look at Costco later in the fall they should have some deals. The girls have to ask to use it.
Both girls use the computers a fair amount for school work and it isn’t an issue that we all share. Dd2 can still use the desktop in a pinch to do the online programs she has to for math or do word processing, but honestly even in 4th grade they are so far still doing assignments by hand, which is fine by me because her handwriting needs a fair amount of work. We will probably get rid of the desktop computer when we move next year as dh and I aren’t super tech savvy at upgrading. We may end up with another laptop or a chrome book type computer at that point.
Dd1 has a classroom iPad program to use at school and Dd2 has a classroom Chromebook to use at school.
FWIW: we were gifted an Apple 2E when I was in the 8th or 9th grade (1990 or 1991) from our cousins who had upgraded to a PC and it came with a dot matrix printer and I used that computer until the middle of my freshman year in college (1995). I replaced it with a Mac PowerPC. Dh said his family got a PC in the mid to late 80s and that thing was still around when we started dating in 1997.
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