Laptop for €400

brcwatters

Hi

My 3 kids are getting involved in coderdojo and we need another laptop in the house. The eldest is on for buying one for himself, his budget is currently 405 euro. It will mainly be used for Scratch, python and minecraft, at the moment anyway, obviously that will change as he gets older etc. He actually originally wanted to get a raspberry Pi but it's not very portable to be bringing to sessions so he's gone to a laptop.

We were looking at an acer on LD which is 371 euro. The same one is in PC world either for 420.

Also in PC world there's a HP Pavilion for 399.

Or there's one on the dell site he was also looking at - the Inspiron 15 for 389.

Any opinions on any of these or any other options out there?

Also on LD they want to charge for set up, back up usb stick etc etc. It all adds another 80 euro or so to the price. Obviously the AV we'd have to pay for no matter what. I'm not completely helpless with computers but don't think I've ever bought a laptop out of the box before that wasn't set up by the shop/work etc so wondering how straightforward it is. Is there any big mystery to it?

I can do the back up usb stick myself I assume. Would the dell price include the set up? I know PC world wanted another 70 or 80 for set up and antivirus. Just trying to get him the best value for his hard-saved money!

Thanks

multimate

brcwatters wrote: »

Hi

My 3 kids are getting involved in coderdojo and we need another laptop in the house. The eldest is on for buying one for himself, his budget is currently 405 euro. It will mainly be used for Scratch, python and minecraft, at the moment anyway, obviously that will change as he gets older etc. He actually originally wanted to get a raspberry Pi but it's not very portable to be bringing to sessions so he's gone to a laptop.

We were looking at an acer on LD which is 371 euro. The same one is in PC world either for 420.

Also in PC world there's a HP Pavilion for 399.

Or there's one on the dell site he was also looking at - the Inspiron 15 for 389.

Any opinions on any of these or any other options out there?

Also on LD they want to charge for set up, back up usb stick etc etc. It all adds another 80 euro or so to the price. Obviously the AV we'd have to pay for no matter what. I'm not completely helpless with computers but don't think I've ever bought a laptop out of the box before that wasn't set up by the shop/work etc so wondering how straightforward it is. Is there any big mystery to it?

I can do the back up usb stick myself I assume. Would the dell price include the set up? I know PC world wanted another 70 or 80 for set up and antivirus. Just trying to get him the best value for his hard-saved money!

Thanks

The acer with i3 fom ld is defiantly the best out of those 3 you'll have to search up but if its upgradable, you will probably be able to throw 4 more gig ram or a small ssd in to fillltue 400 (maybe 420 for ssd with it)

brcwatters

Thanks - that's the one we're most interested in too. I was a bit dubious about ordering online but searching around this site it seems that many do.