Kingzance

Thank you both for the imnformation - 23 hours is not a late response especially since this computer has been inspirational for a few hours.  Will look up sometime this week.  Again, many thanks, cheers,

Peter  

Edit = for inspirational read inoperable!

New edit - Now read your post on the NHS - in which I spent 35 years - glad you were given a clean bill of health.

Looked up Pages, Numbers Keynotes - none will download on either current iMac - too old - checked and they are 2009 and 2011 - so also have no trade-in value but can be 'usefully' recycled.  Certified Refurbished Products on laptops - with current situation easier to take with me that the desktop- did not have any real advantage price-wise to new.

13.3" MacAir seems best bet although a much smaller screen than I am used to but the 16" Pro seems a tad expensive when Apple's 'useful' life seems to be so short.  I do need Word/Pages Excel/Numbers PowerPoint/Keynote.  On a new machine they, PN&K, come free but most of the information that I produce has to be read on PCs by club members.  Past history I also used Access and Publishing although not much use on the latter because none of my students or peers had it.  Potentially then I need a new computer - laptop - but will still need Office for Mac although the prospect of working on the Mac equivalents first has some kudos.

Thanks for the guidance, cheers, Peter

IIRC Access and Publisher are Windows only.