Computer hardware upgrades

Computer hardware upgrades are getting harder to do. Why?

Case in point:
Parent buys a cheap computer for the 12-year old, who of course is into 3D games at this point in his life.

From the 12-year old’s whining, parent finally decides that “Ok, it won’t play your games - I’ll do a computer hardware upgrade.” Parent then calls tech support or a local computer technicain and finds out that because he bought the cheap model, it can’t be upgraded!!!

It doesn’t have a slot for a faster video card, it won’t take the faster CPU (main computing chip) the memory is the older slower type and ditto for the hard drive. In other words, a computer hardware upgrade is impossible.

Now what does the parent do? Instead of a computer hardware upgrade, he or she buys the 12-year old a new computer that can run the games that the 12-year old plays, and takes the other new computer and uses it for him or her self to browse the Internet and get email - which is all that sort of computer is good for in the first place…

Check your computers for hardware upgrades BEFORE you buy them - ESPECIALLY if you buy them for your children. They need more computing power than you do…