A:AnswerThere were very few if any bloatware on it. There may be some deals with MS Office or various virus scanners from time to time. But it's still just a windows 10 laptop, (it comes as windows 10s but it's free to take it to Windows 10 Home, which you really should).
A:AnswerMy only concern with this is that it only has 128gb of storage. If he is uploading it to the cloud, or moving it off to an external hard drive or something, then he should be fine.