Raspberry PI 2 model b for niece

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Hello.

I've been playing with my Raspberry PI for a while now and it seems fairly solid.
Recently my niece has been asking for a PC just to browse the internet, use office and time to time watch a movie.
I know Libre Office isn't perfect for doc formats but from my experience it gets the job done. Browsing is smooth as hell so I don't see a problem there.

Am I seeing something wrong or is the raspi a perfect solution?

Thank you.
 
Depends on what you mean by watch a movie from time to time (where is the video source).

As far as I know you still can't watch Netflix on a raspberry pi (I think Amazon Prime Instant video is possible through kodi plugins but not entirely sure about that)
 
Would be fine as a media device, using XBMC (Kodi). It would probably just about suffice as a web browser but office work it will start to drag a bit.

Probably be better with a cheap laptop from one of the big retailers.
 
The standard distribution, Raspbian, includes a program called OMXplayer that can be used to watch movies. It even supports HD movies, so you are OK as far as watching movies goes.
 
Recently my niece has been asking for a PC just to browse the internet, use office and time to time watch a movie

Am I seeing something wrong or is the raspi a perfect solution?
Get her a laptop.

completely agree with this
get her a netbook or a laptop

if you are technically minded you could even get linux running on a cheap chromebook as most new intel based ones come with coreboot + seabios

I'm not against rasp pi etc, just seems like many people ignore the other dependencies & costs involved.

I'm sure it's still cheap but it's not usable as a portable computer. (I know this wasn't part of the question but it's an advantage)

You can even run windows 10 on it..
Isn't it Windows 10 IoT ? (not desktop)
 
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