[bluedino]

A Pentium 4 or Athlon XP 2700+ from 10 years ago has been unusable for all but the simplest tasks for years. It would have also needed to be upgraded along the way - it came from the factory with just 256MB or 512MB RAM. You can still edit office documents and do some light web-surfing, but for todays interactive sites and content it falls far behind the experience that an iPad can provide.

[cadetzero]

My mom still has no problem using QuickBooks and doing all the required web stuff at work with a Pentium 4 and 512mb ram. She literally just bought a new desktop because quickbooks requires it.

In an office environment, she really doesn't need more.

[watmough]

I'm not so sure. A Chromebook provides a significantly better experience than an iPad, at least for me and my wife.

Our iPad 2 is now almost exclusively the province of my toddler daughter.