Hi my sister is saving up for a laptop next year and i have no idea for a laptop spec, she wants to have microsoft office 2012 and windows 7 working on it, and to be alright for games such as wizard 101, or standard web browser games, and she wants t get it to near as 200 pounds as possible, thanks in advanced!
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vanthus
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Don't need to be harsh,but for £200 your probably better looking for a second hand laptop.
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Acer Aspire V3-571G Core i3 Laptop with NVIDIA Dedicated Graphics (630M) is £419 on Laptops Direct. You might be lucky - they had the same model at Comet but with an I7 and a 640M for £564 recently (reduced from £799) and will be getting rid of Windows 7 stock now. £200 is pushing it for any kind of gaming but there are 15.6 inch laptops on Laptops Direct with Windows 7 for between £200 and £300. Fujitsu Lifebook AH530 Windows 7 Laptop with 6GB RAM! - VFY:AH530MP502GB6GB £289/Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-14C Windows 7 Laptop in Black - PSKC9E-01100JEN £209...2GB RAM but just take the 2 sticks out and up it to 4 or 8GB...take you 30 seconds.
Office will be a problem. I can get 2010 for £10 through work and I know students get it cheap but you will not find it installed on a £200 laptop. You might find Office 2003 cheap online though - does the job.
Office will be a problem. I can get 2010 for £10 through work and I know students get it cheap but you will not find it installed on a £200 laptop. You might find Office 2003 cheap online though - does the job.
I looked up Wizard101 and you can run it on integrated graphics. Get the Toshiba for £209 and upgrade the RAM - my mother's had 1GB and I upgraded that to 4 not long ago. It's well built, picture is decent as is the sound and looks far more expensive than the cost advertised.
tom_gr7
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I was about to suggest that, my netbook is a few years old now, but the hardware is still pretty much the same in the new ones.
I had to upgrade the ram, because it was always crashing, 1gb just aint enough, so bumped it up to 2gig.
One problem I have with all netbooks is, they only come with win 7 32bit os preloaded, yay so all the junk that pops up every single time you start up....The problem for me was because I wanted to reinstall the OS onto a ssd. 1 - I would need a usb dvd drive, 2 - I aint got a physical disk copy of 32bit install (I only have 64bit win 7 disk, So would either have to buy another copy of win 32 or 64 bit just to reinstall. So i physically could not do it.
I use it to take notes in uni lessons, and general internet browsing. To be honest that's all its good for.