Advice needed cheap laptop for my daughter please

[jessiejames]

Some advice needed please. Daughter wants cheap laptop to store photos download music. I know she wants a re writer but some advice needed regarding memory, i.e will a 4 gig be OK or should I spend the extra for an 8 gig? She will also be on Facebook and other media like face time etc.
Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[StonehamPark]

Some advice needed please. Daughter wants cheap laptop to store photos download music. I know she wants a re writer but some advice needed regarding memory, i.e will a 4 gig be OK or should I spend the extra for an 8 gig? She will also be on Facebook and other media like face time etc.
Thank you in advance for your help.

What's your budget?

 

[happypig]

If you love her you'll buy her a macbook

 

[TomandJerry]

If you hate her you'll buy her a macbook

 

[Diablo]

If you got money to burn you'll buy her a macbook

 

[Gwylan]

If you love her you'll buy her a macbook

Cheap?

Ebay's your friend. My son picked up a Lenovo for about a ton and it's been absolutely fine

 

[jessiejames]

She has iPad but wants cheap laptop where she can store pictures and put them on to a disk along with music, so anyone know if a 4 gig will OK or should I go for an 8 gig for memory?

 

[Beach Hut]

8 minimum photos take up a lot of space

 

[looney]

I got a 500 Gig laptop for £180..........meh.

 

[looney]

If you are an idiot you'll buy her a macbook

 

[dazzer6666]

She has iPad but wants cheap laptop where she can store pictures and put them on to a disk along with music, so anyone know if a 4 gig will OK or should I go for an 8 gig for memory?

As someone who learned a very expensive lesson with photos, make sure there are back up copies stored somewhere. Can get a 1TB USB external storage thing for about £40

 

[Nibble]

HP Stream. That'll fit your requirements.

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

I would look on ebay for a refurb HP business like a 8470p - I got one of those recently for about £280 (but are now about £200) for an i5 with 4GB RAM and legit licence for Windows 7/8.1 Pro. As these are business laptops they are easy to upgrade (memory and hard disk) and also have the functions like the ability to connect to a docking station so once the computer is "home" it can be easily connected to a desktop monitor, keyboard and mouse.

If you get a cheap laptop from a supermarket or a somewhere like PCWorld, they tend to be low quality and aren't that quick to run applications.

 

[BensGrandad]

Do you want new or used?. If used, the Coin Exchange shops or DR Ex in Haywards Heath offer good deals.

 

[Doc Lynam]

If your daughter is used to Apple don't put her through having to use Windows no one deserves that!

 

[Paskman]

Get her a Chromebook. My lad has one and loves it. He is 13. His school is now dishing them out to all the pupils as part of their new teaching programme.

 

[Gwylan]

Get her a Chromebook. My lad has one and loves it. He is 13. His school is now dishing them out to all the pupils as part of their new teaching programme.

Chromebooks are great (I have one) but there's no storage on them. And if his daughter is not using Google/Android, it's not an easy fit

 

[beorhthelm]

the 4/8 Gig refered to is RAM for Windows to run in. if theres not much price difference get the 8GB but if sticking to budget go 4GB, its plenty.

what you want to be looking at, and spending more to get more, is the Harddrive space, this will be in the order of 500GB up. as suggested, put some money aside for a USB backup drive if your bothered about the pictures, or maybe a cloud service (though remember they arent necessrily any safer online).

note on Chromebook, by all accounts a lovely bit of kit but wholely unsuitable for local storage, entire premise is to store everything in the cloud

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Personally I wouldn't go near Apple. Unless your going high end video editing/AutoCAD route then 4Gb RAM will be more than enough, use an external HD along with the million free cloud storage areas and job's a fish.

 

[Paskman]

Chromebooks are great (I have one) but there's no storage on them. And if his daughter is not using Google/Android, it's not an easy fit

But the cloud is where it is at, it is the future. Look how the storage is dropping on all laptops, especially Apple. She can use a Chromebook and access all her pics anywhere.