What computer should I buy?

gezzelin

I'm not a technical person at all. I have a Dell 725 printer and Canoscan Lide 20 scanner, this is in the box room with the old type tower computer. I use a Samsung notebook, which I connect to the internet with. The Samsung is not in the best of health, it gets very hot and the cable connection is sellotaped.
I would like a laptop which I could still use downstairs for the internet and also be able to connect to my printer and scanner. At the moment I'm having to save anything I want printing to a USB stick and then go upstairs, switch on the computer upstairs to print things off.
I hope I have explained this ok, I don't understand computers, I always say I don't surf the internet its more of a trundle.

agrinnall

Your specific problem isn't your computer, it's your printer and scanner. I assume they are not wifi enabled, and unless you can make them so you'll always need to physically connect to them, either by cable or by transferable media as you do now. I don't know if it will be possible to enable them, but it's likely to be cheaper in the long run to just buy a new all in one printer.

Cisco001

Get yourself a new all in one wireless printer, and make sure it takes sd card.

Neil_Jones

You can get wireless print servers that you attach to non-Wifi capable printers to make them wi-fi, and allow basic printing from anything you connect to it. You wouldn't be able to see ink levels or scan wirelessly like this but you'd be able to print.

Having said that, the price of these has gone up dramatically since I bought mine and it would probably now be just as cheap, as previously stated, to replace the printer with a wireless all-in-one.