Grandson wants an iPad

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When I was a lad I got an empty cardboard box for Christmas and thought myself lucky!

Figment

Deleted_User wrote: »

When I was a lad I got an empty cardboard box for Christmas and thought myself lucky!

Cardboard box? You were lucky!

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

jungle_jane

The new Kindle Fire might be an option? The HD ones out this thursday are £159 but the non HD are £129. I reckon they pretty much do everything the ipad does and the e-reader component is brilliant

sweet_tooth

goodness me, to all the grumpy ppl, well done moneypenny2k for trying to buy your grandson something he wants rather than some overpriced toys he doesn't want. i agree if your children can look after toys etc then they do deserve more expensive items, if you've brought them up not to value anything then they will fling it across the room, maybe pound shop is better for them...

Toxteth_OGrady

Figment wrote: »

Cardboard box? You were lucky!

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Luxury :eek:

:rotfl:

T_T_2

Figment wrote: »

Cardboard box? You were lucky!

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Can't stand people who gloat.

Lakeuk

How about buying the kid a £30 Raspberry Pi, get him started like this 7 year old who's made a game using Scratch a free application aimed at school kids, have him build a case for the Pi out of lego

RobTang

its nice if you have the bits lying around.

but not everyone has a spare...

USB charger
USB cable
Some sort of monitor that supports hdmi (or conversion cables) or a tv
Keyboard
Mouse
SD Card
Something to make the case out of..

Its just adds up and if you have to buy you're at the £100 limit anyway.

T_T_2

RobTang wrote: »

its nice if you have the bits lying around.

but not everyone has a spare...

USB charger
USB cable
Some sort of monitor that supports hdmi (or conversion cables) or a tv
Keyboard
Mouse
SD Card
Something to make the case out of..

Its just adds up and if you have to buy you're at the £100 limit anyway.

Don't worry, the OP's son became a £60k/pa programmer because he gave him a BBC Micro or something back in the 80's. It's very likely he has your full list by the box load just lying around the house.

All joking aside, the Raspberry Pi is a very good idea, particularly as the OP wanted to encourage development.