Ouch, touch screen makes it quite expensive comparative to a standard laptop

If you take out this requirement you can get a pretty good basic laptop for around £300-£500 (i3 Intel 4gb ram). The cheapest touch screens can come in a few hundred more e.g. User Posted Link at £699. It may be better to save on the touch feature and have a separate iPad or similar. There is a huge range of chipsets and ram and hard drives that you can mix and match. If your 14yr old wants to do "gaming" the you are at the top end of performance e.g. i7 CPU and dedicated graphics cards etc.

Posted By: Basingstoke_Canary on May 17th 2019 at 16:37:41

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How much do I need to budget for a semi decent laptop (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:18:21
- £30 (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, May 17, 18:51:49
- I would recommend an ASUS Zenbook (General Chat) - Timmy_Goat, May 17, 18:12:49
- Hardly anybody I know who has a touch screen uses it (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 17, 17:05:40
- Surface pro (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, May 17, 16:43:14
  - I have surface pro for 2 years (General Chat) - trianglepatch, May 17, 18:01:13
    - I've had mine for four years. (General Chat) - MORDENCANARY, May 17, 22:23:35
  - lol no (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, May 17, 17:03:49
    - I liked my work one (General Chat) - CWC, May 17, 19:48:21
  - Is that the make and model? 'Surface' make and 'pro' model? (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:46:52
- (whatever you get, go for a refurb - some great value to be had and literally good as new) (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, May 17, 16:40:02
  - For gods sake dont tell her its a refurb!!!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, May 17, 17:17:58
  - Oh,ok. Is there a site that specialises in them at all that you know of? (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:45:50
    - Most direct vendors do refurbs (General Chat) - Old Man, May 17, 16:47:40
      - Brillo pads, thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:56:44
- what !! (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, May 17, 16:39:31
- Ouch, touch screen makes it quite expensive comparative to a standard laptop (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary, May 17, 16:37:41
  - Thank you. A bit more for touch screen than was hoping (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:45:05
- What about an Apple iPad for 2018/19 just bought my niece one for Uniy and she loves it! (General Chat) - Thegelman, May 17, 16:37:35
  - Thanks, but for some reason needs to be a laptop (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:43:13
  - Link here: (General Chat) - Thegelman, May 17, 16:40:39
- What model does their best mate/popular crowd have? (General Chat) - CWC, May 17, 16:35:19
  - Well she mentioned some Dell touch screen but don't know model (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:42:26
    - That would be the XPS range. I have an XPS 15. Absolute demon of a machine, (General Chat) - I Am Hoot, May 17, 22:09:44
  - Haha - my daughter loves her low end Chromebook right off :-) (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, May 17, 16:38:48
- “Some” leisure use? Yeah, good luck there (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, May 17, 16:30:32
  - "Must have touch screen" - for the "leisure use". Hmmmmmm. (General Chat) - Old Man, May 17, 16:38:17
    - I do find that it’s a bit of a lottery as to which programs are installed (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, May 17, 16:43:48
    - Thank you.....but a bit too techy a response for me....I'm terrible! (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:41:43
      - Non-techy response (General Chat) - Old Man, May 17, 16:46:11
        
        Ive got a free word type programme - Kingsomething. (General Chat) - CB41, May 17, 17:28:13
        
        Brilliant, thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - Azteca, May 17, 16:47:32

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