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Get her to try an iPad in a shop so she can decide how the screen keyboard is. It sounds like exactly the right thing given what you’ve said it will be used for. My opinion is that the screen keyboard is fine for all the standard iPad things, and the keyboard covers are actually pretty good, again, my opinion (not touch typing fluently, nor writing long reports etc.).
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Looking for a really light-duty sofa-mac for my mum.
It will basically be used for browsing and email and streaming music to a bluetooth speaker.
Thought of getting her an iPad but thought both on-screen keyboard as well as those keypad-covers will annoy her (she's touch typing fluently on regular keyboards), then thought about an Air, but heard a lot of you complaining about the "butterfly" type keyboards (they're the same as the ones in the new MacBook pros, right?). Also a bit over budget really.
How about an old Air? Do they have motherboard / graphic card breakdown issues like the pro's as well?
Any feedback / suggestions appreciated.