PC to Mac conversion for non-techie baby boomers

Post date: 2018-12-07 09:16:55
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My 68 year old mother, a life-long PC user, is finally ready to accept my Macbook air since her current machine is very slow. What's the best way to prep her for the "conversion?"

I've offered getting her a new PC before, but she'll automatically refuse any new product since her old machine was good enough. Over the last year, she has complained about its performance enough that I have finally got her to agree to take my perfectly-working year old Macbook Air, since I've been talking about upgrading. (This seems to make her more happy than me buying a new machine, and she knows I don't have a PC so not like I could fool her with a "used" gift there.)

After being raised on PC's and only spending 6-8 years on Apple, I do feel like I've finally adjusted to the point where the OSX functions feel completely normal, and using Windows feels alien. I do remember the initial adjustment though, and I'm afraid my mother will refuse to go through the steps of learning a new system and want to stick with her old PC. She is of average tech use for her age, she has an android smartphone and has an ok level of understanding how to use it. She doesn't use social media/upload anything and the main thing she uses the computer for is internet browsing (and Solitaire).

So, is my best option to try installing Windows on the mac (which I have no idea how to do) or should I try to help her adjust to OSX the best I can, printing out some shortcuts and trying to walk her through the differences? Some basic googling sounds like running Windows on Mac OSX might make the machine slower. However, when looking for this same question I didn't find anything super helpful; a couple of apps that might make things more familiar, but nothing that suggested an easy conversion.

What would you do in my position? Is anyone aware of any websites/resources specifically designed for the older generation switching from Windows to Mac? (Should I just give her a new PC that "fell of a truck?!") Thanks in advance!
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