Fireman Posted November 30, 2011 Posted November 30, 2011 Was thinking of getting my girls a laptop each for xmas...futureshop in canada has a few cheapies in the 300dollar rAnge...any suggestions as to what i shud or shud not look at wud be appreciated...400each is kinda my ceiling unless i buy just one and let them fight over it...thx guys Quote
JensenPark Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 maybe one of the $199 blackberry playbooks? Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted December 1, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 1, 2011 Which websites are you looking at? If you can post a link I'll have a quick look. Don't know about the playbooks though. Jabo Quote
Fireman Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 Futureshop.ca What r the playbooks? Actual laptops (pc's) were what i was considering. Quote
1. DDz Quorum Pooka Posted December 2, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 2, 2011 I'd like to help you Fireman, but I'm watching this thread too. I planned to ask the same question, but you beat me to it. Come on mates, for 12 year old boy or Firemans girls. Roger, FT ?? Quote
1. DDz Quorum FoolTrottel Posted December 2, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 2, 2011 Well, it'll all depend on what the thing is going to be used for! Will it simply be a 'toy', or are they going to use it for school, or other serious matters? As, for fun, 11.6" is fine, but a vertical resolution of 600 is just way too low to browse the Internet... And, I would not know what is a good machine, or a bad one. Me thinks it's all a bit moot, as a lot of the parts inside those things are all from the same makers... I'd be looking at the best/biggest screen I could get for the least amount of money... and check whether the pgup/pgdn buttons are both on the right hand side of the keyboard, because at that low resolution one will be using them a lot! Quote
1. DDz Quorum Pooka Posted December 2, 2011 1. DDz Quorum Posted December 2, 2011 Thanks FT, I wouldn't have thought about the up/down buttons.. It'll help, guessing Firemans in the same boat as me, kid will use it for school and serfing. Quote
Jediteo Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 I have a 11.6 EEE PC netbook I bought 3 years ago, wonderful little thing, a bit slow these days however. You really need to get the ones with a 1360x768 resolution or higher. My sister bought one this year for around the same price that runs 1400x900 and has a fairly decent dualcore processor. It runs W7 and runs most programs just fine, just don't expect to play games on them. But if the laptop is going to be their main computer I'd go for a 15.6'' one. The netbooks may be very useful and extremely portable (takes up less space than my folders), they do come with quite a performance and monitor penalty. Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted December 3, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 3, 2011 If you're looking at netbooks, I quite like this one. Respectable price point and a choice of colour too. Jabo Quote
delta7 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I bought an acer laptop for my 12 yr old son last year and my 75 yr old father and both are very happy so Im happy to recommend the brand, what model depends on how much you want to pay and what you use them for Quote
2. Administrators Jabo Posted December 5, 2011 2. Administrators Posted December 5, 2011 I like acer too, you get quite a lot of bang for your buck. Quote
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