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A friend is looking for a laptop for his daughter for university. Budget is around 5-6k, pushing 7.

Give me some recommendations.
 
faniedry said:
A friend is looking for a laptop for his daughter for university. Budget is around 5-6k, pushing 7.

Give me some recommendations.
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Anything Acer or Dell with an extended Warranty will be good. Don't splash out on gaming laptops. Not worth it.
 
faniedry said:
Sure, But spec wise? Something like a i5 with minimum 4GB RAM?
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For note-taking / researching stuff? You can go lower...also look into smaller sizes (11.6" etc.). The kid will probably be carrying a textbook or two around and a 15.6" laptop might be overkill...I don't know if full HD has made it down to that price range and 1366x768 looks poor on a 15.6" screen.
 
Neoprod said:
For note-taking / researching stuff? You can go lower...also look into smaller sizes (11.6" etc.). The kid will probably be carrying a textbook or two around and a 15.6" laptop might be overkill...I don't know if full HD has made it down to that price range and 1366x768 looks poor on a 15.6" screen.
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You won't find 1920x1080 in that price range.

A 11.6" laptop would be the best bet, you can find a Celeron N3050 with 4GB of RAM for around 6k.
You can find a 15.6" laptop that is better specced, but it's much heavier, and overkill for taking notes/doing the basics.
 
I have sent you a pm with a laptop recommendation
 
www.webdirect.co.za look at their refurbished stock. I baught a Dell Latitude E6430 from them around a month ago, 2.5 GHz i5, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD for R6000. Even the battery is still pretty decent giving me 2 - 3 hours or so. This is a very decent spec machine for the money and will be more than good enough for a student even if the student intend doing slightly more than the typical MS Office work and web browsing.
 
Remember to include Office 365 or MS Office in your budget. Luckily most laptops have Windows 10 preloaded. :)
 
OCP said:
Libreoffice :-
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Yeah awesome advice, when that doc doesn't open on the lecturer's PC or it can't be submitted online, it will be fun.

As a university student you can get MS Office for free at most universities.

Also a celeron is crap. Rather buy 2nd hand. i3 or i5 with an SSD is a must.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Yeah awesome advice, when that doc doesn't open on the lecturer's PC or it can't be submitted online, it will be fun.

As a university student you can get MS Office for free at most universities.

Also a celeron is crap. Rather buy 2nd hand. i3 or i5 with an SSD is a must.
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Why not save it as a .pdf?
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Yeah awesome advice, when that doc doesn't open on the lecturer's PC or it can't be submitted online, it will be fun.

As a university student you can get MS Office for free at most universities.

Also a celeron is crap. Rather buy 2nd hand. i3 or i5 with an SSD is a must.
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My wife who finished her masters at uni on a mac with LibreOffice never had any issues.

This included her 400+ page thesis which she submitted as a PDF.
 
I've had a Dell entry-level Celeron Netbook go dead twice. Once was the before submitting an assignment. Took Dell 5 days to send out a tech to sort it out. Dell don't do refunds on purchases after 180 days apparently. Thank goodness for Gdocs and saving to the cloud.
 
If i had to buy a laptop now, Dell not HP, my wife has got a new laptop through her company R35k beast - its no beast - the wifi never works at home, endless hassles with it....
 
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