Help pls. What laptop to buy my son!

motorguy

Asus variant 13.3 inch QHD screen

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asus-ux330ua-133-qhd-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-7th-gen-i5-59989-win-10-costco-2879237

Bigger screen, but just HD

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asus-156inch-thin-laptop-intel-core-i5-7200u-256gb-ssd-8-gb-ram-model-s510uq-bq178t-63087-at-amazon-2879828

Omollmeg

Ok so he's now looking at this one:
Any knowledge would be good as he wants a Fitbit too.
Thankyou????
From clueless mother 🙈😩

https://www.ebuyer.com/805720-hp-250-g6-i5-laptop-2sy46es-2sy46es-abu

EveryWhere

Omollmeg wrote: »

Ok so he's now looking at this one:
Any knowledge would be good as he wants a Fitbit too.
Thankyou????
From clueless mother 🙈😩

https://www.ebuyer.com/805720-hp-250-g6-i5-laptop-2sy46es-2sy46es-abu

No graphics card, so no go.

AndyPix

were wrote: »

a business lenovo, toshiba, or dell, in that order .

Im curious as to why you would put Dell at the end of that list rather than the beginning ??

Omollmeg

Oh no is a graphics card important?
What would that enable him to do?
thank-you

debitcardmayhem

Omollmeg wrote: »

Oh no is a graphics card important?
What would that enable him to do?
thank-you

Depends on the game, but he will probably want to play games that his friends play too, peer pressure is terrible as he gets older. I stick with my original comment get him a desktop, or by a new laptop every 2 years(or less)
By the time he is 13 he may even show interest on upgrading his aging (2 yr old) rig for himself. Just my opinion of course

love_lifer

I wouldnt spend so much, they become obsolete very quickly. and break within a few years in my experience

refurb on ebay would be my recommendation. of any of the above

were

AndyPix wrote: »

Im curious as to why you would put Dell at the end of that list rather than the beginning ??

The old lenovos were virtually bomb proof, Tosh are rated the second most reliable brand and Dell was rated midway.

The worst for reliability was HP apparently... I would have though Acer.

Asus got the most reliable honour, but some reports claim apple?

Stats mostly from SquareTrade. Until recently I owned a tosh, and still own 2 dell laptops, but my samsung is the main workhorse.

https://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliability_1109.pdf

I would not buy new.

were

AlwaysHere wrote: »

I am unable to find any posts that indicate a problem with that device and Windows 10. Do you have any links?.

the windows 10 page redirects to this https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/f51c720b-738d-4593-85fa-46746a1842b6/kernelprocessorpower-event-id-37-even-after-clean-boot?forum=w7itproperf

and this
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/event-37-kernel-processor-power-for-all-8/037234c8-f647-46b4-af08-667827854ec1


I can manually change the cpu settings, effectively overclocking the cpu, from windows, but do not want to stress my chip

Cisco001

For £600, i would say this
https://www.ebuyer.com/803890-msi-pl62-7rc-gaming-laptop-9s7-16jd21-068