I have a father-in-law of 89 near Gatwick who is going to have to something with his XP... His travelling is less now than before and the computer is valuable for him to keep in touch with his family's world wide diaspora. He'd like not to have to replace his rather old desktop and we wonder what's the next best choice. Is W7 likely to be more recognisable to him than other things and will it work on his asthmatic machine?
It has a 2.80GHz Pentium, 766MB RAM with 111GB on his HDD's active partition, of which 99GB is free (he doesn't save much!). He has a tame tech. who will do what he asks. He values the independent nature of the advice on PPRuNe.
Will it work - but not too slowly, please?