Reasonably priced laptop

[mexico1970]

If you just want a PC to work from home and it mainly involves just typing and nothing intensive many people could benefit from running a Linux machine and they could drop their spec requirement a considerable amount.

 

[PragueBlue]

For the amount extra that getting a gaming PC will cost you, you might as well buy a games console.

Anyway, here's an option.

Thanks. That looks ideal.

 

[BLUEinTheUSA]

Over here in the U.S there's various offbrands, one being "Overpowered" that offer some crazy specs, gaming-wise, for a very affordable price. They're decently reviewed as well. I've been looking around to see if there was a similar budget gaming brand over in the UK for you guys. I've never heard of the brand "Medion" but wondered if any of you over there had. The linked laptop is at the top of your budget, but seems like a good deal with a dedicated card for gaming, great storage and a physical drive (if you need that). Anyone have any experience with this brand?

https://www.box.co.uk/30025003-Medion-Akoya-P6685_2431522.html

 

[meltonblue]

My youngest daughter's school has set the children up with online lessons so they can keep on with their studies while they are off school. The platform seems to only really work well with Windows and everything we have at home is Apple and is in use for working from home anyway.

So I'm looking at picking up a reasonably priced Windows laptop for her birthday that she could use for that purpose and also for playing a few games.

I don't know much about Windows machines so would welcome any suggestions.

Out of interest, have you considered a desktop instead? Laptops and teenagers (or younger) can lead to broken screens or damaged hard drives due to dropping them - I’ve found that out twice already!

I’ve gone desktop for mine this time because I also wanted to set up an area that my kids could consider to be work or school space, rather than doing it on a laptop in front of the tv or lying down in their beds.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Out of interest, have you considered a desktop instead? Laptops and teenagers (or younger) can lead to broken screens or damaged hard drives due to dropping them - I’ve found that out twice already!

I’ve gone desktop for mine this time because I also wanted to set up an area that my kids could consider to be work or school space, rather than doing it on a laptop in front of the tv or lying down in their beds.

I can attest to that, I must have been through 7/8 in my time.

 

[yeseye]

I’m suprised that schools would think that parents would be able to fork out hundreds of pounds on laptops/pcs especially in the current climate with so much uncertainty about and when a lot of the parents will have to stay at home with their children.
Couldn’t the schools provide them to the children?

 

[east2]

Either of these should be good enough
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2156701
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2156701
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7331507

 

[Ric]

Only advice I’d give when buying a laptop or PC is to not bother with anything that has less than 8gb memory. It will drive you fucking insane.

 

[meltonblue]

Only advice I’d give when buying a laptop or PC is to not bother with anything that has less than 8gb memory. It will drive you fucking insane.

Definitely agree with that.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Only advice I’d give when buying a laptop or PC is to not bother with anything that has less than 8gb memory. It will drive you fucking insane.

I've heard that if you have an SSD, then the amount of RAM you need becomes less important. That's why there's no difference in RAM now than there was when I last bought a computer about 5 years ago. When I was a kid, it would double every few years.