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Help with choosing laptop spec
Nell51
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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.
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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For £350, you can look for intel i5-5200U cpu.0
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£300-£350 is enough to buy a spec that will last a good few years. Machines are generally all priced in the same ballpark (you can use price trackers like camelcamel to see some of the pricing games that go on).
At that age usability, weight and looks/style may be more important than how many million instructions per second a cpu can chew through, so wouldn't get too bogged down on the processor and ram
You may also have to budget for office, but you could use this
https://products.office.com/en-gb/student/office-in-education
Don't you dare criticise what you cannot understand0 -
I think an i3 based laptop would be fine, have a look at some of the one listed here:
http://www.box.co.uk/products/cat/Computing~B~Laptops~B~Laptops/refine/46562~144411
for example the HP 250 G4 i3-5005U @ £265.49
http://www.box.co.uk/HP_250_G4_1835066.htmlScience isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0
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