Laptop or something else?

chem_j

Hi,
My mum has asked for a laptop for Christmas to listen to Spotify on. Apart from that, all she would be doing is checking email and a bit of web surfing. I'm thinking a laptop might be overkill and maybe a netbook would be sufficient. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

TakeThis

She asked for a laptop, but you want to get her a Netbook? Cheapskate.

This MSI Wind U135 is not terrible @ (£154) and makes it easy to upgrade the RAM to 2GB.

timefortea

Would she have trouble seeing/typing on the smaller keys, and that's why she's asked for a laptop? I know my mum would struggle.

closed

If the main requirement is spotify, listen to a few in the shops, bigger laptops have room for better speakers, but the sound can vary significantly from model to model

RosieBee_2

Hello,

If you'd only need it for Spotify and checking e-mails, then i'd go for a netbook or a tablet PC. Although some tablet PC's dont support Spotify at the moment. A cheap netbook would be ideal. If sound quality is important, then make sure the netbook has a headphone input jack and get a set of good speakers to go with it. It would still work out cheaper than a Laptop.

Hope this helps

nicka99

ipod touch and speaker dock ? much more portable and better sound !