Thank you for the replies.

I've used a couple of iPads and liked them a lot. My wife is a Mac user. I have a PC. So brand is largely irrelevant. I know very little of apps. I do have an upper dollar limit and have been considering getting a refurbished or secondhand tablet.

All things being equal, since my wife's Mac is older than my PC, we'd probably go with an iPad and make it hers.

I'm asking friends and reading up online but given the wealth of knowledge on FT, it never hurts to ask here as well.