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It's someone's dad. There will be no reasoning.
He's old and resistant to change. He currently has an old mac on it's last legs, so he's familiar with the OS - processing wise there is nothing he needs, that probably couldn't just be done on a phone -it's just a screen size issue. Everyone but him agrees the sensible middle ground is probably an ipad
@tonylast - that's a really good idea. I'll suggest it.
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An iPad Pro 12.9” with apple keyboard and pencil would be functionally indistinguishable to most silver surfers and likely easier to maintain. Will probably be around the £500-700 mark all in I guess. That or a used windows laptop, perhaps a Thinkpad t440 or smth similar (~£150). There are iPad versions of pretty much any software on a Mac or PC.
That said I think this story is probably a rabbit hole - who buys a new top spec MPB for email and web? It’s so idiotic it might not even be worth trying to get involved.
Some people just get a bit funny about their elderly loved ones being miss-sold products.
It sounds more like he (the buyer) is just being incredibly belligerent. Which is fair enough as long as he’s aware that there’s probably a £2-2.5k tax on choosing to be so inflexible. I wouldn’t suggest a used MBP in case it fails. With people like this there’s no real upside, they’re not grateful for advice but if the advice is wrong you’ll never hear the end of it.
freddo
If it helps, it looks like you can now use a mouse with an iPad. It's making me consider selling my Windows 10 laptop since I could now use an iPad to Remote Desktop to my home and work machines.
Hard to ask someone why it's a no without sounding combative, but what does he expect to do with it that he needs a proper Mac for?
For 2k he could get a Macbook Air and an iPad and have some spare change still.