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Help with choosing laptop spec

Hello and thanks for reading.

Our daughter has asked for a laptop for Christmas, primarily to do her secondary school homework, use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc, backup photos and videos from her iphone and ipad, use youtube, surf the internet.

I have researched and ruled out a chromebook due to lack of storage, therefore am looking at a laptop. We can go to £350 (she is adding her birthday money too) but don't know if this is necessary? I feel I'm trying to buy a 'future-proof' purchase but don't know if that's right as in a few months there will be new spec? Money is tight so I need to get this purchase right.

I'd be really grateful for your opinions of what spec of laptop we should be looking at and if you have any recommendations that would be even better.

Thank you.

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