Laptop for year 7

[SusanSHelit]

I'm going to buy a laptop for my 12yo ds who's just started year 7. I've already decided on the one I'm going to get him, it's only for homework as the vast majority of it is set online, and it's a clunky nightmare to do on a phone or tablet

Apart from a laptop bag to protect it when it's travelling from my house to his father's, is there anything else I need to buy for it? Antivirus obviously but cloud storage? Curry's protection thing they are pushing?

Most laptops have antivirus now days included don’t they? Does it come with Microsoft included if your DS needs to write essays? Just becareful curry’s don’t try and over sell, I spoke to me
tech friend before I got mine and they said it came with it as standard the antivirus and curry’s where being cheeky

I get the impression that curry's are upselling. I have Norton with space for one more device so I'm not concerned about that

The cloud storage and insurance type stuff /wireless mouse etc is more what I'm querying

Windows comes with its own built in protection (Defender) so third party AV apps are not required as much as they were, in any case, the ones Currys are likely to sell probably aren't going to be the best ones even amongst paid options, there are plenty of free options which would do just as well, provided he's not going on too much which is dodgy or installing random stuff.

Cloud storage is useful as any work he does do gets saved somewhere other than his own computer. So if it gets lost/stolen/breaks then the work is already somewhere else.

He probably doesn't need a wireless mouse unless he finds using the one built in to the laptop difficult. Either way, that can be looked at later, a basic bluetooth Logitech mouse isn't expensive if he needs it

Agreed something like a MS 365 subscription (for using Word/Excel etc) and including I think 1TB of onedrive storage, is probably the most useful extra