Child’s Laptop/Tablet Advice

[HappyHaribo]

Looking to buy a laptop/tablet for an 8 year old. She would be mainly using it for typing stories, making up PowerPoints for school, and maybe some games. Ideally want something with child-safe browsing that limits social media etc. Does anyone have any recommendations for ones that would be decent? Are the Amazon kids specific tablets worth getting?

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Amazon fire tablets are crap.

I would get a chromebook.

Thanks! Interesting to hear, I’ve only really heard good things about them, but not entirely sure it’s what she’d want.

Amazon tablets are terrible.

What's your budget?

I won a Chromebook and we’ve turned it into the homework laptop. We were really impressed with how easy it was to turn on parental controls at a range of levels. DS1’s school also has Google accounts for them so we just hooked him into his school account which feels ideal.

We’re figuring she’ll probably break it after a couple of years anyway and it’ll need to be replaced, so probably looking at no more than £200.

Another one to say avoid Amazon Fire - they do din on he Android operating system but Amazon muck about with the interface so you need to jail break it up get a lot of the standard apps.
I would recommend a Chromebook or the Nokia might like this at John Lewis: www.johnlewis.com/nokia-t20-tablet-android-4gb-ram-64gb-10-4-2k-hd-deep-ocean-blue/p6225779?s_share=jlappdroid T20 Tablet (which you can control via Android's Family Link app from both Android & Apple phones). You could pair it when a Bluetooth keyboard - so that can be used for typing & then the tablet is of use for travelling & watching stuff. I set up the second options for my nephews (aged 6 & 3) and their Mum is very happy

Thanks everyone, I'll have a look at these suggestions 😊