[webwanderings]

Chromebook.

I bought the cheap one (Lenovo) sometime ago. It has a good battery life, very lightweight and compact. I have seen the same being used by many people (in the same category). It is the most trouble free and productive piece of material there is. Ignore all these security software and Linux etc. Just hookup uBlock and Ghostery into the user's Google Chrome account and you're done.

[djaychela]

Very similar here. Got a Chromebase for my Mum (77) who has previously had an original iMac (she loved) and a Windows 7 PC (which she tolerated). Both iMac and PC had issues, and I'd often have to fix stuff. There was a bit of a learning curve for her (cloud print is a mystery to her, not helped by it breaking about 2 weeks in and needing a powerwash to sort that), and she couldn't have Skype on it which was the one initial sticking point, but since her getting going with it I've not had any issues.

Indeed, a couple of weeks ago when she thought she'd killed it because she'd fallen for clickbait that then said she had viruses on the computer, she was pleasantly surprised that powering it up again showed it was fine. For the £220 it cost, it was money well spent - she can do what she needs/wants to online without issues, and TBH I think that a LOT of "normal computer use" people would be better off with one rather than the PC they think they need (usually when asked it turns out that internet and email with the odd bit of word processing and printing is what people do).