Laptop for 14 year old

cmm5

Hi all am new so hope I'm doing this right!!
I have a 14 year old son who has asked for a laptop can anyone help with the best cheapest deals around at the moment???

4743hudsonj

cmm5 wrote: »

Hi all am new so hope I'm doing this right!!
I have a 14 year old son who has asked for a laptop can anyone help with the best cheapest deals around at the moment???

have you got a budget?

what does he need it for?

cmm5

Hi thanks for school work will be starting gcse's sept and likes facebook beebo etc for networking with friends

As cheap as poss maybe £300 at a push!

stuartk

cmm5 wrote: »

Hi thanks for school work will be starting gcse's sept and likes facebook beebo etc for networking with friends

As cheap as poss maybe £300 at a push!

hi there

check out Ebuyer - they have gr8 prices on laptops / netbooks

regards

Jaffa.

Have you looked into getting him a netbook?

macman

You'd get a much better machine at £350 to be honest. £300 generally limits you to the cheapest available. They'll do the job but don't have the capacity or features you'd get if you spent a little more.
Have a look at the Dell Inspiron 15's, which start at £299.

cmm5

Hi not absolutely sure of the differences between netbooks and laptops???
I'm not very technical lol

GunJack

...or...for that level of use, check out bigpockets refurbs...will do what you/he wants, and half the price of new....

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/cat.php?search=laptops&lang=

got my boys IBM Thinkpads from there, bargains

real1314

macman wrote: »

You'd get a much better machine at £350 to be honest. £300 generally limits you to the cheapest available. They'll do the job but don't have the capacity or features you'd get if you spent a little more.
Have a look at the Dell Inspiron 15's, which start at £299.

The inspiron 15 at £299 is celeron based.

Have a look at the dells at tesco for £349, use quidco for 4% back (about £15) use a voucher code for at least £5 off (see the voucher board) and get clubcard points (maybe double points?) for another £3.50 (or more if you use deals). get delivery to a local store too.
Brings it down to £327 ish or less

-TangleFoot-

cmm5 wrote: »

not absolutely sure of the differences between netbooks and laptops???

Netbooks are generally smaller, cheaper and less powerful than a full-fat laptop. Inside the current crop you'll usually find an Intel Atom processor, but physically that's about the only concrete difference there is. Aside from their Lilliputian size pretty much anything goes.

Two excellent examples of the breed are the Samsung NC10 and the Eee PC 1000HE, both getting rave reviews virtually everywhere. They're hovering around the £300 mark at this very moment...

real1314

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Netbooks are generally smaller, cheaper and less powerful than a full-fat laptop. Inside the current crop you'll usually find an Intel Atom processor, but physically that's about the only concrete difference there is. Aside from their Lilliputian size pretty much anything goes.

Two excellent examples of the breed are the Samsung NC10 and the Eee PC 1000HE, both getting rave reviews virtually everywhere. They're hovering around the £300 mark at this very moment...

Or you can get them as low as £129 (maplin and aria both get this low) but the spec is obviously lower - smaller screen, less memory, run windows CE though which may be a bonus for some people over linux