This kind of "non-advising" "advice" happens all the time, all over the place online - and yes, it's irritating. I saw it just yesterday when giving myself some reminders on converting DVDs from PAL to NTSC format. People advise: "Just get a better DVD player and it will do the conversions for you right in the player." Yeah, ummmm... Thanks, NUMBNUTS. A Hollywood cartoon - where artists painstakingly created 24 images to be shown each second - is MEANT to be displayed at 24 frames-per-second. Now, in Europe, where the PAL standard was 25 fps, they had no choice how to watch it. I get that. But I DO. And I DON'T need to be told to "get a better DVD player". If that was what I wished, my player can play them back just fine, thankyouverymuch. SHEEESH!! So yes, I sympathize. My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I thought it was pretty neat at the time. It had a half-width membrane keyboard, you used a standard audio cassette drive for storage, and it could be expanded to as much as 32 kilobytes of RAM! LOL I hate to throw anything away. I take old computers and turn them into arcade game machines using MAME and the like. Little kids LOVE those games! And they're so computer-savvy at such young ages now, they catch on to the controls right away. You can also make pretty good multimedia players from machines that have weak processors but decent GPUs.
