Bargain laptop for under £100

aloiseb

If it's lower spec than a cheap desk top, it certainly won't suit us - our children invariably want to do much more complicated things than we do on the house computer, which is a ten year old 2nd hand HP Vectra with a Freecycled monitor, parked in what would be the cloakroom if wedidn't have to put the computer in it.

They keep complaining that the computer "froze" in the website they were looking at - which rarely seems to happen when the grownups are on ebay or email.I suppose
they have such lovely newer computers at their schools that they can't cope with ours!
My year 7 daughter would love to have a laptop to do her homework on, but it sounds as if with our budget, she is doomed to have most of her bedroom taken up with a PC to get the quality she needs. Either that, or we get another or we forego the plan to have anywhere to hang the coats.

(I can just hear somebody saying "Coats? You can afford coats???):p

tr3mor

tightus_wad wrote: »

I have resevations as to the INTERNET access. I have yet to see one work and am dubious how it will cope with Flash/Multi media enriched web pages. I would LOVE it to be all it claim to be, however, a faster CPU would SURELY not have cost that much more to put inside.

According to the specs I've seen, Flash is not included with the pre-installed browser. Even if you installed Firefox, the Flash site recommends an 800MHz processor. Hence I don't think this will cope at all.

For anyone interested in this machine you should consider the architecture that it is based on (486) became obsolete in around 1996. It is not just slow by today's standards, it is slow by 10 year old standards.

rdwarr

Mind you, I was using the Internet in 1994. I was running spreadsheets and word processors in 1984. It's not the hardware that's the issue - it's expectations of the software and multimedia capabilities.

tr3mor

rdwarr wrote: »

Mind you, I was using the Internet in 1994. I was running spreadsheets and word processors in 1984. It's not the hardware that's the issue - it's expectations of the software and multimedia capabilities.

True. People take things for granted these days. I remember having to wait 20 minutes for games to load into memory from tapes on my Acorn Electron.

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