New Laptop

[sunflower]

Thanks for your thoughts.  I have  Family Tree Maker eleven. Hopefully that will run on windows 11

[Biggles50]

Forget a Windows laptop, they are full of unwanted apps, (bloatware), it will want you to sign up to Office 365 it will try to store everything to the storage system from hell namely One Drive.

Buy an iPad, 13” Air £799, 11” Air £599, basic iPad 11” £329.

They will do everything and last for ten plus years.

All the Apps you will likely need are free.

All my Genealogy research is done on my iPad, our Ancestry trees are backed up to my desktop PC which has Roots Magic and Family Tree Maker installed.

Apple products just work!

Personally, I wouldn't touch any Apple product with a barge-pole!
I don't agree with putting all my eggs in 1 basket - or software apps all from 1 supplier.

That is not the case.

Yes, Apple’s own software like Pages, Numbers and Keynote are free and excellent they are.

Other Apps that we are interested in are paid for direct from the developer, Roots Magic, and Reunion work great on our MacBook.

The Apple operating system is vastly safer to use and considerable less liable to invasive viral apps.

So we disagree, I would not touch a Windows Laptop purely form a safe usage perspective.

[Jebber]

September 10th Computer Active has a comprehensive Survival Guide for Windows 10 for those Unable or unwilling to upgrade to Windows 11, if anyone is interested.

[sunflower]

Thanks for information