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Laptop advice
petunia100
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My son wants a laptop for his birthday.
He will need it for school work,playing games and the internet.
I don't want to spend more than £500 tops. He wants an LG but I've always found Dell to be good.
Any advice as to what specs I should look for please?
He will need it for school work,playing games and the internet.
I don't want to spend more than £500 tops. He wants an LG but I've always found Dell to be good.
Any advice as to what specs I should look for please?
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May I suggest you start by reading the 'sticky' at the top of this Board about 'best laptop'.petunia100 wrote: »My son wants a laptop for his birthday.
He will need it for school work,playing games and the internet.
I don't want to spend more than £500 tops. He wants an LG but I've always found Dell to be good.
Any advice as to what specs I should look for please?
Then if you run a search I think you will find a number of posts that are very recent and may be a useful starting point for you in your search?:o0 -
£500 can you get a very good laptop these days...how about a Samsung R610?0
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You don't say how old he is (will he be old enough to take care of it?).petunia100 wrote: »My son wants a laptop for his birthday.
He will need it for school work,playing games and the internet.
As Flossy_Splodge says, there have been recent posts on this very subject, one at least cleaned up to be 'on topic'! In one of them I suggest looking at the website, and perhaps the magazine, What Laptop...0 -
Acer is good for decent specc'd laptops that are cheap. Look at Laptopsdirect.co.uk which generally has some of the cheapest prices.0
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When you said "LG" I did a bit of a search on their latest offerings.....
Whatever you do, do not go for a laptop with the polished shiny screens, they look fantastic just like LGs TV's, but on a sunny day your son won't be getting much of anything done on it at all.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Should be a sticky really
Buy/read PcPro mag's and search out the advice there and look at their guide to the "A" List products. Get an informed opinion0 -
What kind of games?petunia100 wrote: »He will need it for school work,playing games and the internet.0 -
totalsolutions wrote: »Should be a sticky really
Buy/read PcPro mag's and search out the advice there and look at their guide to the "A" List products. Get an informed opinion
Why stop there why not buy/read other PC mags, look at websites like the gadget show, whatlaptop, trustedreviews, etc,etc. Then no one would come here in the process of getting an informed opinion and ask.0 -
You don't say how old he is (will he be old enough to take care of it?).
As Flossy_Splodge says, there have been recent posts on this very subject, one at least cleaned up to be 'on topic'! In one of them I suggest looking at the website, and perhaps the magazine, What Laptop...
He's nearly 140 -
-TangleFoot- wrote: »What kind of games?
Recent action adverture type games.0
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