Laptop for 11 year old.

Carrieandco

Hi All.
My Son wants to buy himself a laptop with his birthday money and I'm looking for recommendations. He has £500 to spend but needs a copy of MS Office so say around the £400 mark for the machine. He needs it for schoolwork and a bit of gaming. What sort of processor does he need and what would be the minimum requirements for memory? Is there anything in particular we need to be looking out for or avoiding? WE need to get this right as it's a very major purchase for us (Courtesy of his Grandparents!)

Carrie xx

bengalknights

Just ensure its running 64 bit windows and at least 4gb ram and he should have a decent laptop for well under £400

railbuff

goto http://www.software4students.co.uk/t/brands/microsoft-office-2010 for a copy of MS office

closed

depends on the gaming, graphics card wise.

an I5 4-8GB, 500GB-1TB could be had for £400 or so, if you use voucher codes and topcashback

some come with office click to run, or you could get office educational discounts as above

suggest a trip to the shops to look at some first, then look for deals on the web

geordie458

Get him one of these:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9267239.htm

and still have £485 to spare!!

railbuff

geordie458 wrote: »

Get him one of these:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9267239.htm

and still have £485 to spare!!

read the OP statement.

Carrieandco wrote: »

Hi All.
My Son wants to buy himself a laptop with his birthday money and I'm looking for recommendations. He has £500 to spend but needs a copy of MS Office so say around the £400 mark for the machine. He needs it for schoolwork and a bit of gaming.

CoolHotCold

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dell-inspiron-15-i5-3210m-6gb-ram-1tb-hdd-win-8-dell-5-05-tcb-1450126



Looks good, Latest processor, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD for £350 using the discount code.

Carrieandco

geordie458 wrote: »

Get him one of these:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9267239.htm

and still have £485 to spare!!

Might be alright for gaming but he's going to struggle to do his homework on it!!
Thank you for your time.

Carrie