I still don't get this. I've seen 4 year olds use computers better than most people in there 40's. Why is so much time spent on making a nice ui for kids. All this is going to teach them is to remember where the desktop icons are located, and then freak out when for some unknown reason all the icons move cause the screen res was changed.
I thought the point of skating games was to do crazy things that were basically impossible but you felt really cool when you did a 1080 backflip over a house.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
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