which laptop for children to use?

jolenejolene

Hi,
I want to get a laptop for my kids for christmas. They will want to play games, internet, daughter likes to type stuff and print it out (office would be good - or word at least).
Can anyone recommend what sort of laptop would be best - what kind of thing should I look for?
Thanks for reading!

Nile

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Cisco001

What games are they playing? What is your budget?

fannyadams

how old are the children in question?
I bought my DS#1 a Dell laptop from Tesco for his school work last year when he started year 7/secondary school. He uses it for gaming and other stuff too.
Be aware that most new lappies will have a Windoze operating system (possibly windoze 8 or is it 9 now??) and therefore a trial version of Office. make sure you download the Open Office stuff ASAP and get Firefox as your browser (then bin Internet Explorer) as otherwise you'll have to buy Office to have word and excel.

jolenejolene

Thanks for replying! The kids are 10 and 7. They just want to play Moshi Monsters online etc. I wanted to spend around £300 if that is possible!?

Cisco001

With £300, you could go for intel B9XX or AMD A4-3305m
Intel would have faster CPU, while AMD have better graphic performance.

http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=Asus_X401A-WX321H_Laptop
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Fujitsu_LifeBook_AH531_1292638.html

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Packard_Bell_EasyNote_TS11_1263502.html
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/HP_Pavilion_G6-1303s_1195152.html?utm_medium=google_shopping&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=google_shopping

jolenejolene

Oh lovely, thank you, I'm off to have a look now!

debitcardmayhem

And you could use libreoffice.org or openoffice bothe free for word / excel etc compatible