after a cheap laptop for my children is this any good.

stolt

my children like to play around on the cbeebies website and i've found this laptop, is it enough to get online and be able to cope with web pages etc..

heres the spec, oh and its used for 89.00.

Big Features Product Description Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop PII 366Mhz CPU Intel Pentium II 366 Mhz HDD Min 6 Gb Min RAM Min 64 Mb Devices CD Rom,16 bit Sound, Additional USB, AC Adaptor, Battery, UK Keyboard. Additional
Warranty 30 Days RTB. No Warranty on Battery due to the age of the laptop Weight 10000g Operating System none Monitor 13.3 Inch TFT Screen
Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop PII 366Mhz, Min 64, Min 6 Gig, CD, 13.3 inch TFT

amonra

In a word, NO.
It hasn't got an operating system installed (nominal £100) you need more memory (£50), hard disk is far too small (£50) That's just for starters. Forget it and keep looking............

flokie

Those specs are probably older than your children

Is there any OS included? Win98 should run OK on it, but probably not very fast. a 6GB HDD won't leave much space to install apps.
You may also want to look at the system requirements for the applications they are going to use. (Web browser, flash plugin etc.. )

stolt

ahhh thanks for both replies, my children are only 5 and three but they like to play on that site, so its nothing to major at the moment, neither do i want to pay a few hundred for one just yet.

i'll keep searching.

fwor

IMO you would be much better off getting an old desktop PC off Freecycle for kids of that age. That way they can spill drinks over the keyboard and it only costs you a fiver for a new keyboard...

rainbowtrout

Lol I remember my first computer back in '96 had specs something along those lines...buying something like that now though would be a complete waste of money, you won't be able to run any decent programs on it and tracking down old programs it can run will be time-consuming and probably quite expensive too.

rainbowtrout

PS I'd also steer clear of any rip-off merchant that tried to sell you that laptop for 90quid!

pavlovs_dog

ASUS have been getting great reviews. i know you can also buy them through firefox.com


have a look at this thread here, a mini MSEr had one as a christmas present

epz_2

ive seen laptops 4 times that power in all aspects thrown out, werent dell doing new laptops for 200 notes a little bit back and thats new with 100 times the prefomance (almost literally), any 10 year old laptop will be trully wrecked by now.

amonra

I agree with Fwor, children of that age are going to spill their drinks on the machine, drop it, try to bend the screen.......Buy a cheap desktop.

weegie.geek

That laptop's going to be way too heavy for kids of that age as well, so a desktop is the way to go imo, since they'll have to use it on a desk anyway.