One of the Intel staff made a comment on the Intel forums that anything older that one of the HD3000 releases would no longer be getting any driver updates, most especially for WebGL functionality. (I posted the link somewhere I think in the my.sketchup.com category.)
… So it is almost obsolete as it is. (It’s GPU is a 3rd generation, and 6th generation models are on the store shelves.) You’d very likely be replacing it quite soon “down the road” anyway. Perhaps sell it on eBay, and use the little bit you get towards something newer. that your wife can “grow into”.
See this list:
Whatever you do, do not get the low end model with the Atom processor. See:
Consider only one with an iCore series processor, and the best you can afford w/ the most RAM.