So I'm thinking of getting my dad a laptop for Christmas. Hes currently using an old laptop that someone else owned since 2005. It's very slow as you would think and XP is not even being updated anymore.

He pretty much needs it for

Resolution - Any
Budget 250-370$ Canadian
Need an OS ? Yes.
Play any games? No, never.


HE will only be using this for streaming netflix / movies.
Checking websites for news / weather / youtube / forums.
listening to music.

But I want all of these applications to run very smooth and quickly. we have great internet but his laptop is so slow it does not even matter.

I'm looking around but laptop parts and CPUs have their own little names and such and im kind of lost. Any help is much appreciated

Even if you can give me specs to aim for that will help me look.