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Please help me find a cheap but half decent laptop for my daughter !!!!

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Jun 3rd, 2018 1:18 pm
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 3rd, 2018 1:18 pm

Please help me find a cheap but half decent laptop for my daughter !!!!

my daughter is 13 I want to get her a cheap laptop for school must be not a Pieace of Grap please but cheap more then anything please help I was about to buy a cheap $230 laptop from amazon that sucks bad?? she doesn't game and mainly will be for school I don't want to get her a POS that she won't want to use ever please help me need new cheap but good !!!

Let me know the best deal on a half decent one please I'm not to sure about laptops.

Thank you all !!!!
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Jun 3rd, 2018 2:43 pm
willy
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Jun 3rd, 2018 2:43 pm

Does she plan to bring it to school ?
Jun 3rd, 2018 2:59 pm
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 3rd, 2018 2:59 pm

willy wrote: ↑ Does she plan to bring it to school ?
Yes I think so its atcaully for my niece and my sister in laws buying it for her.
Jun 3rd, 2018 3:00 pm
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 3rd, 2018 3:00 pm

is it true the Emmc hard drives are abit faster then the regualr Hard drives?
Jun 3rd, 2018 3:01 pm
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 3rd, 2018 3:01 pm

FrostyWinnipeg wrote: ↑ Good and cheap starts and ends with Intel i3.
thats what I told her like for like a i3 5th gen or newer or a i5 3rd gen or newer would be good.
Jun 3rd, 2018 4:55 pm
lazybum131
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Jun 3rd, 2018 4:55 pm

ScottF391 wrote: ↑ what about this one? on amazon $229
This netbook is going to be terribly slow to use. 32GB of storage means your daughter/niece will have to very carefully manage space just to even get the semi-annual Windows feature updates. Only advantage is it's light and battery life seems good from reviews, but if that good battery life is only while doing one thing at a time and frustratingly waiting I don't think it's worth it.

I'd get something refurbished like this instead. HDD can be upgraded down the line, battery should be 5-6 hours. Not great but you can't have it all for super cheap.
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Jun 3rd, 2018 9:12 pm
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Jun 3rd, 2018 9:12 pm

lazybum131 wrote: ↑

I'd get something refurbished like this instead. HDD can be upgraded down the line, battery should be 5-6 hours. Not great but you can't have it all for super cheap.
OP can pick one of these: https://ca.refurb.io/collections/laptops
¯\_(-.-)_/¯ A wise RFD'er once said, "Buy now, think later."

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Jun 3rd, 2018 9:32 pm
justmehereajax
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Jun 3rd, 2018 9:32 pm

A student laptop would consist of an i3, 8GB ram and 1 TB hard drive. I work in computer retail and service.
Jun 4th, 2018 9:45 am
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 4th, 2018 9:45 am

ok thanks everyone, I'd just hate for her to get a cheap one and her daughter never use it because it sucks. I'm more into Gaming computers.
Jun 4th, 2018 6:24 pm
ScottF391 [OP]
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Jun 4th, 2018 6:24 pm

anyone else have anything to add please?

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