Could anyone help as dh and I are in dispute.
My dd has asked for a laptop for Christmas. We are lucky enough to be able to find funds for this if we include grandparents/using a bit of her saved up money (which she is fine with).
My view is that we need to get something functional and practical without spending too much because let's face it, tech moved on so fast that any laptop will be out of date in a few years. I was hoping for a budget Chromebook around 250/300 but tbh I know nothing really.
DH is a techie and he's done a bit of research. He reckons she will need a windows laptop which can run all these various programmes and apps 'just in case'. He is looking at double the price. We can in theory stretch to this but I am struggling to see that this is necessary.
We both have form for this kind of thing - I can fall into the buy cheap buy twice trap whereas he can be a bit all the gear and no idea.
What do others have? Is it worth spending more at this age when it's principally going to be used for homework/streaming and chatting to mates.
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