Best laptop to buy, today...

[Monsieur]

Daughter (17) needs a new laptop this week...her requirements are -

• fast
• good storage (photos, videos etc)
• able to play video
• wireless enabled

I've looked at dell, amazon, pc world etc but am bewildered at the choice

Which one would you buy if you were buying this week

 

[richie]

Daughter (17) needs a new laptop this week...her requirements are -

• fast
• good storage (photos, videos etc)
• able to play video
• wireless enabled

I've looked at dell, amazon, pc world etc but am bewildered at the choice

Which one would you buy if you were buying this week

Any of the slim line ssd models like ACER, if she needs more space get an external drive.

 

[Keyframe]

So she only needs it for gaming, photos video and social networks?

Tell her she's going to have to work and save up for it.

On the other hand

If she can convince you (and show you by example) that having a new laptop will help her get straight A's and B's in her coursework and A levels then get her a MACBook Pro. She also needs to swear on her life she look after it, keep it password protected, locked away and clean of food, drink, snot and spittle.

 

[GADGET]

MacBook Air, I think you should be able to get a students discount.

 

[RedRick Esq.]

Lenovo !!

 

[Monsieur]

So she only needs it for gaming, photos video and social networks?

Tell her she's going to have to work and save up for it.

On the other hand

If she can convince you (and show you by example) that having a new laptop will help her get straight A's and B's in her coursework and A levels then get her a MACBook Pro. She also needs to swear on her life she look after it, keep it password protected, locked away and clean of food, drink, snot and spittle.

She's paying 80% of the price

 

[richie]

She's paying 80% of the price

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/lapto...03-14-touchscreen-ultrabook-21324787-pdt.html

Something like this

or dare I say

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/lapto...md711b-a-11-6-laptop-silver-21399875-pdt.html

 

[wozalldisden]

Daughter (17) needs a new laptop this week...her requirements are -

• fast
• good storage (photos, videos etc)
• able to play video
• wireless enabled

I've looked at dell, amazon, pc world etc but am bewildered at the choice

Which one would you buy if you were buying this week

I'm doing the same search this week and I think I've narrowed it down to this Acer

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CFHPGGO/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers

Reason - Windows 8 but with touchscreen, DVD included and other specs seem plenty good enough to cope with most tasks. Gaming might be an issue but it's not something I'm worried about.

 

[David Nimrod]

If she can convince you (and show you by example) that having a new laptop will help her get straight A's and B's in her coursework and A levels then get her a MACBook Pro

+1 to that

(but secondhand...)

 

[stolzy]

MacBook Pro or Air depending on budget.

 

[paul08]

Yep, the Applestore offer student discounts and evn parents can get the discount if they give details of their kid's place of education (or at kleast they used to offer this)

 

[Monsieur]

Reckon this Dell 15R will be okay?

 

[Greg Masters]

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[Tim Cullis]

MacBook Air.

If she's worth it.

The aluminium body is bulletproof (well, almost). It's ultra portable. Nine hour battery runtime on 11" model, twelve hours on 13", so no need to carry a charging brick around. Solid state disc drive is both fast and ultra reliable. Decent operating system so no need for anti-virus thingumebobs.

Even the base configuration will have a life time of six or more years. The Dell is certainly cheaper but with a short life and typical Windows management problems, not to mention Windows 8.

http://store.apple.com/uk/mac/family/macbook-air

Education pricing: http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/campaigns/education_pricing

 

[Monsieur]

MacBook Air. If she's worth it.

like this one? she works for waitrose so she'll get their staff discount too

 

[Gecko]

I've bought from Laptops Direct I found their proces good and quick to deliver too.

 

[Monsieur]

just checked with her - mac air no good as she wants a laptop for gaming too

 

[Greg Masters]

just checked with her - mac air no good as she wants a laptop for gaming too

I think you need a tighter specification or else you're just going to get a list of PCs

 

[Tim Cullis]

Have a look at this for gaming on the MacBook Air: http://www.trustedreviews.com/apple...ew_performance-gaming-and-battery-life_Page-2

Also http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1594690

If the games she wants are not available on the Mac it's possible to set up Windows XP or later on the MacBook Air either as a boot partition (no cost so long as you have a Windows CD) or running under Parallels Desktop virtual machine, which means the app runs within Mac OS.