Help needed on Apple hardware

[Jimbeam3678]

I've got a dilemma which from a technology perspective is unusual

In our household we have a MacBook Pro 2015 13" (mine), iPad Air V1 and my wife's Dell 15" 5 year old XPS laptop.

My wife literally lives on her laptop as she watches her Taiwanese dramas on youtube, dailymotion, Facebook and web surfing. Everything was fine until you guessed it her Dell blew up and is beyond economic repair.

Here's the dilemma do I buy her a cheap as chips Windows laptop and end up with the same problem in 18 months. The other option is going down the Apple route for her be it give her my 2015 MacBook pro and for me to buy a new MacBook . Which model though ? 13" I know I want but touchbar non touchbar? Is 8 gig Ram still enough?

The other option is for me to keep the MacBook and buy her a new iPad Pro 10" which would fulfil her usage needs (?)

I'm leaning towards an Apple product because yes I am fan but also she looks after her "luxury" items but then the cost difference between £500, £750 (iPad) or £1,500 is quite huge!

I think this is the first time I'm genuinely undecided on a tech purchase, OCUK please give me some help!

 

[Jimbeam3678]

I'm hearing you and agree with the Touchbar a lot of cash for not much function a part from looking "cool" My reasoning for leaning towards Apple is because the old Dell XPS was mine from 2010 which was 1.5K fell apart after a year albeit lasted another 6 years.

The iPad was my idea although she said she wants a PC after I suggested it. I thought new 10" one with a smart keyboard would be ideal but it doesn't look like its that simple! On top of all that in the back of my mind I'm conscious as you rightly said am I glossing it up so I can get a new shiny MacBook

Decisions, decisions.