alt Hacker News2020 was when the ARM-based chips came out. Did you get her an Intel-based or M1-based mac? Because from 2017-2020 the Intel-based Macs were absolutely awful. I've owned several of them. The keyboards were terrible and they were slow.
I still have 2019 Macbook Airs sitting around, and I consider them completely unusable.
My wife has owned a 2020 M1 Macbook Air since then, and it's still working really well. To the extent that every time we talk about upgrading, we end up agreeing to wait.
I still have a 2019 mbp 16” .. i9 something with 32GB of RAM and a 2GB radeon 4xxx, which was my work machine until I got an M1 pro… set it up to replace my son’s 2015 macbook air and HOLY SHIT this thing feels slow. I can’t wrap my head around how they can be this bad. Like swimming in syrup.