So it's happened; mom's venerable Dell has bit the dust and I'm being called on to find her a new laptop. Everything I've seen here and elsewhere says Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare and we're trusting Microsoft's forced automatic updates to not break the computer. Dell is still offering computers with Win 7 and 8.1, but Microsoft is pushing the OS upgrade hard and heavy. I'd love for her to let me set her up with Linux but she's devoted to Google Picasa (Google not porting their apps is another rant) and I'm not sure how often she's going to be calling me with some Windows only program she needs. And then there's Apple, which makes my fingers itch to type, but it's looking better and better. So, what is the collective wisdom of the Soylentils*?
*Irony duly noted.
(Score: 1) by Caballo Negro on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:04PM
Just to add that secondhand MacBooks going back to Core 2 Duo or later perform fine for light-to-medium work with the latest OS X, so long as you replace any HD with an SSD. But check for screen burn before buying, and be prepared to replace the battery if it's exchangeable.