Kingzance

Thanks Truffy - thankfully I no longer need them as Word and Excel have since both been used to provide the same, howbeit slightly more complicated, and from the other help provided by you and others on here it seems that Pages and Numbers together with Keynote will do an excellent job.  Cheers, Peter

Peter, the MacAir is a very good beast, I got one for my sister in 2013 and she is still happily using it. The Apple UK Refurb store has the Macbook Air with the larger 256Gb SSD at a discount of £200 which means effectively you could get 256Gb SSD for the price of a 128Gb SSD if you wished to go down that route. They do have offers on the version with the smaller SSD too.

With two Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports, you can connect a powered hub and add many more USB ports if you need them. I have done that with my MacBook Pro so I have one direct port to my TimeMachine back-up drive and the other is the hub where I have photo cards, portable storage devices etc connected. The hub I use takes its power from an external transformer so I don't overload the USB power supplies in the laptop.

The first bit is very useful and I like the idea of 256 GB SSD and will go back to the website. The faster 3 - I think that I use a powered USB hub on my iMac and a 3 will still work my USB 1 & 2 but at the lower speed. The responses that you are all providing shows just how good the RM community is. Cheers, Peter