Debating with some friends as to if their mother needs a 2024 M4 MacBook Pro with 16gb or 32gb. Their use case? Work email, social media, accounts for their small business.

This person will likely never use 90% of the power of this machine. They are not like us with 99 tabs open at once. They likely will never install an app besides maybe their accounting package and even that's probably web based now.

The idea that this machine might only last them 5 years because of OS updates is ludicrous.