Which laptop for a 10 year old?

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DD wants a laptop for Christmas - she'll be starting high school next September so it will be for school work, Minecraft and roblox!

I'm getting over whelmed with choice - can anyone post links to recommendations? Budget around £300-350, tempted to wait for Black Friday

I got a chrome book. Not strictly a laptop but does everything my 14 year old needs.

I wouldn’t get a laptop, a tablet/iPad or chrome book would be better. I have bought dd laptops in the past and even with paying the extra for anti virus she has managed to pick things up after a few days either making the laptop run super slow or not at all. I have ordered her a ipad for Christmas ,I already have one as does her sister, have had mine for 5+ years and it’s still as good as new. Dd can do homework on it, play games and watch YouTube without picking up anything nasty.

Focalpoint - which one did you get? I'm thinking of getting one for OH who has zero interest in technology but likes to do a bit of word-processing and internet browsing.

I got my daughter a gaming laptop as the other office ones won't play roblox, sims 4 or minecraft and she moaned about the 'lag'. She said roblox is not the same on ipad, phone etc as cant build. Hopefully it will last a few years!

Oh and chromebooks don't support the roblox app so I found out🙄

I just got one for my ds13. His friends Dad is a techie and said you need at least 8mb ram to prevent lag and 512 GH storage. That's costs around £500 although I found an grade A Acer one on currys clearance site on eBay for £439. It seems great. He plays some games on it and says it's quick enough.

That should be 500gb. Laptops direct is also supposed to be good. If she is happy with less than a 15 inch may be cheaper. If you also went for i3 processor rather than i5 it's a bit cheaper.

Roblox now works on Chromebooks (this is pretty recent).
I highly recommend them - everyone in our household has one.

Are the cheaper £180 chrome books fine for roblox and schoolwork inc zoom?