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At the moment my nephew is living with us for an extended period of time, he uses my computer at the moment which is in my room, but it's not ideal.
When it was his birthday a few days ago, i was under the assumption that one of my brothers was going to build him up a laptop, since all it supposedly needed was a hard drive, but it seemed that was a pipe-dream and it never happened.
Today my mum seen something in one of the papers which had 3 websites for budget computers, which are between £100 and £150, for those on any types of benefits. She would be eligable because of the pension stuff, so spending £100 or so could be worthwhile.
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I checked the sites in question, and admittedly the middle one ticked the boxes for me.
15' LCD monitor
40gb hard drive
1gb memory
Pentium 4 2ghz
Windows 7
Plus all the other accessories like mouse, keyboard, cd rom etc
All that for essentially £95, which sounds like a huge bargain.
The only downside is, its a desktop PC, because it will be "his", i'd feel much more comfortable if it was a laptop. Alas it isn't...
So before i take the plunge, does anyone know if there is any budget laptops for a similar price along with spec?
When it was his birthday a few days ago, i was under the assumption that one of my brothers was going to build him up a laptop, since all it supposedly needed was a hard drive, but it seemed that was a pipe-dream and it never happened.
Today my mum seen something in one of the papers which had 3 websites for budget computers, which are between £100 and £150, for those on any types of benefits. She would be eligable because of the pension stuff, so spending £100 or so could be worthwhile.
Remploy e-cycle online
Get your computer
XMA are getting people online and using the internet.
I checked the sites in question, and admittedly the middle one ticked the boxes for me.
15' LCD monitor
40gb hard drive
1gb memory
Pentium 4 2ghz
Windows 7
Plus all the other accessories like mouse, keyboard, cd rom etc
All that for essentially £95, which sounds like a huge bargain.
The only downside is, its a desktop PC, because it will be "his", i'd feel much more comfortable if it was a laptop. Alas it isn't...
So before i take the plunge, does anyone know if there is any budget laptops for a similar price along with spec?