I doubt a Mac will be cheaper to rent. They’re much more expensive to buy.
What software is a must to use the files on the 3T external drive?
When I goes out to Aaron’s and puts in your zipper code thingie I don’t get lots of options and none of ‘em is a Mac. The HP 15.6” Windows 8.1 Laptop looks to be the lowest on the dollar-evolution scale and should do what you want, expecially if you can get them to not put Total Defense Security on it.
I don’t see any good tablet options.
If you could get one, I’d suggest looking into a Chrome book except you don’t like Googles knowing what you’re up to.
For some reason, my OpenOffice files on the 3T slave want to use IE to open, and that is unacceptable.
The person in charge of matching clients with aides was here this morning, and I went to print her a copy of the CFIDS protocol and IE opened and kept opening and closing and opening and closing and would not allow me to open the document.
In another disturbing event today, I went to check the USPS site again for the bottle of BP stuff that leaked in the last shipment from iherb, and even though it had only been 20 minutes since I checked it for the package to Taxchick, I was given a message that I could not access the site.
There must be a better way to deal with a computer, but I have no idea what it is. I can’t recall ever having such a wide variety of problems accessing needed sites and documents in my entire computer-using life.