I just noticed my folks laptop is almost dead and want to buy them something under $1500. They're retired 70+ year olds so it's only going to be used for basic stuff. Dad listens to a lot of music on headphones and watches YouTube all the time. It's going to need to be windows 10 also. Prefer it not to be all grey, all black / dark blue is fine or grey and black keys. Touchscreen would be really nice if can get one. I am using my 28 degrees card with price guarantee so would be okay spending a lot more if it's likely it will come down much in price over the next 12 months. Thanks in advance.
Help Finding Laptop for Folks under $1500 (Min 15", Windows 10)
Saul Goodman on 23/02/2023 - 20:06
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Not sure if oldies in to touch screen, if that the case, get them a ipad otherwise 14" laptop under $1000 will do.
Prefer it not to be all grey, all black / dark blue is fine or grey and black keys.
What the ?
I am guessing the key colours is so they can see them easier?
Note that there are 2 variants: The NUC that's equipped with Intel Core i7-1260P will have a touchscreen.
The Core i5 variants do not have touch.
Another vote for this.
I bought the m15 touch for my in-laws (same age) for a similar use case
The catch here is that you've specified Windows 10.
I don't think you will be able to find any new computer with Windows 10 on it.I would advise talking to one of the refurb sellers.
It would be easy enough to downgrade on most hardware.
I know licenses are forwards compatible, typically, but are they backwards compatible?
The other catch is potentially new laptops only ever sold with W11 may not have suitable drivers for W10.
I'd go a refurb dell for $500, not sure what they're going to get out of a $1,500 machine.