Somewhat OT, but I was looking at your original post and you wrote

"I need to stock the laptop with certain programs such as Filemaker Pro, MS Office..."

I particularly noticed your reference to MSOffice. I was in a similar position when I retired of no longer having access to upgrades from work so a little while before I retired I downloaded and installed Open Office and have found it every bit as good as MSOffice. It will save and open MSOffice files up to Office 2003. Open Office 3 also opens but does not save MSOffice 2007 files. I can recommend Open Office and I have checked, it is available for the Mac.

Open Office is free, btw.