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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.
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.