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I have had a few of these for various people and have not been disappointed.
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Ebay is full of refurbed business machines for a good price which is the way I'd go.
The NUCs are nice for the size but you're paying for the form factor.
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Is there a simple answer to 'what to get a parent whose Win7 desktop will shortly reach end of life, as it can't be upgraded to Win10'? Win7 support finally ends in Jan.
Can't be upgraded to Win10? Minimum specs for W10 are the same as W7.
~£35 on a 256GB SSD and give it a go?But yeah, there are plenty of cheap fast Dell and IBMs knocking about on ebay and refurb sites
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I have one of those dells spare you could probably use, for a good price, if you can send me a PM i'll reply with the specs when I get it out of storage tomorrow
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Is there a simple answer to 'what to get a parent whose Win7 desktop will shortly reach end of life, as it can't be upgraded to Win10'? Win7 support finally ends in Jan.
Needs to be Windows for familiarity. Web, Word docs only I think. Existing screen is OK, so I think a small desktop is the way to go.
Complete Intel NUCs seem to start at £400 for a dual core Celeron, which is probably adequate, but a bit more money than expected.
Edit: I guess the answer is probably a small-ish refurbed corporate desktop like: https://www.ebuyer.com/767949-refurbished-hp-elite-8300-core-i5-4gb-250gb-sff-desktop-pc-cb-pc-hp-8300-sff-i5-4-250-w10pro
maybe adding a small SSD, for about £250.