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_ppi wrote:

I do realize I am late to the party, but I have to ask: Why not laptop? It would suffice to your parents' use case, and add portability to the table.

The parents may not appreciate the smallish laptop screens, nor the smallish keyboards. Some of them may have grown up on the typewriter and will not like the shallow key travels of laptop keyboards.

And Photoshop/Lightroom on a laptop? I would not do that unless I am doing this for a living and really need the mobility. Squinting for those palette tools and/or working with the UI under a handicapped resolution (to have bigger letters you may need to dip into those horrible 1366x768 screens?) is not going to be fun.

Flying Fox wrote:

_ppi wrote:

I do realize I am late to the party, but I have to ask: Why not laptop? It would suffice to your parents' use case, and add portability to the table.

The parents may not appreciate the smallish laptop screens, nor the smallish keyboards. Some of them may have grown up on the typewriter and will not like the shallow key travels of laptop keyboards.

And Photoshop/Lightroom on a laptop? I would not do that unless I am doing this for a living and really need the mobility. Squinting for those palette tools and/or working with the UI under a handicapped resolution (to have bigger letters you may need to dip into those horrible 1366x768 screens?) is not going to be fun.

You can still plug laptop to normal monitor and keyboard. But browsing web/facebook on your sofa has its benefits. Win10 screen scaling works okay in my experience, most of the time.