In the end I bought an ASUS VivoBook M413DA from Laptop Outlet, through Amazon. The spec for this model is AMD Ryzen 7, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Windows 10 – remember what I said about VW Golfs! The reason is the spec will give it a long life and it meets all my requirements. Not cheap, but cheap for what I got.
Co-incidentally, my customer’s machine was also from Laptop Outlet but via their website. They now have an HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF Desktop PC containing an Intel Core i5-4570, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD. The processor is an early generation but the price was under £100 and will meet their needs.
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