• Asking for a friends dad who wants a new mac...

    What year of 2nd hand/refurbed laptop would people recommend?

    Requirements:

    • ideally 15" but could use 13"
    • sufficient for email and web browsing

    She is trying to talk him down from a new top spec MBP.

    Cheers.

  • Prob pre 2016, when the keyboards were less problematic.
    For that use case any Mac post 2010. Or prob post 2005. With an SSD.

    iPad?

  • Cheers. That's helpful.

    iPad

    My thought too, but apparently it's a no.

    God even 2nd hand it's not cheap. Sounds like it'll be a new Air... either way it seems so much to spend for someone who probably just needs a budget Chromebook. But definitely better than the £2k he's being upsold to :)

  • But avoid the 2011 15” MacBook Pro as they have the logicboard failure issue.

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