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I recently (yay Black Friday Week!) got asked by someone in their 70s, who never worked with a computer, to help them pick a laptop:
They still want a laptop, which is fine, even if they don't know what for ("not for gaming, not for fancy rocket stuff like you do") after having showed them some basic office stuff on mine. Still not sure whether to recommend them a Chromebook, a tablet, or what.
If they don't know what they're going to use it for, I'd focus on practical things most non-technical people use laptop for:
The rest can be done on the software side: