Are you ready for that 3 a.m. phone call? You know, that 3 a.m. call from your sobbing parent, sibling, or acquaintance desperately asking for your help with a computer. It. Gets. Old.
Let’s admit it, for those computer-phobes, a personal computer with a fully featured and robust operating system isn’t right for either them or you. But in a world where not having access to email, Facebook, and the Internet puts you as far off the grid as the Unabomber, is there a way for these folks to have an easy, trouble-free computing lifestyle?
To find out, we looked at three machines—the Telikin Touch, the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, and Apple's iPad 2—that just might be idiot-proof enough to keep even a complete computer-dufus from screwing things up.
