nothing fancy, just good for ZOOM and movies

Nice signature I'm borrowing it for a few days 😁

What is your budget?

1K or so

Could spend half that and accomplish your goals.
You sure you don't need anything else from it?

Nope, my daughter classes are all ZOOM meetings and her current one is freezing alot now

Whats her current one, maybe worth fixing/upgrading that one.
Otherwise aim for any i5 (6+ gen only at this point) with 8gb ram with an SSD.
I wonder if her freezing is related to your network more then her laptop tbh.

an old dell it has been fixed a number of times (about 8 years old)

That tells me nothing tbh.
My pc is 8 years old and I have no issues.

/edit
I mean if you want new np. sure someone will link something.
Headed out the door just now to go fix the snow dog chain for ice fishing season.

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Dec 6 2020 09:44am

Noone cares

If it's just Zoom and Movies, just buy an Apple m1 Air, unless there's specific Windows/x86 utilities you need to use. Kids love Apple products.