Best laptop for £300

[Gorja]

For DD1 who is 14.

So for school work, Netflix and SIMS 4.

I’m not very tech savvy and want the best fir my money.

www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-15-bw059sa-15-6-laptop-blue-10165023-pdt.html

I've been quite happy with this - I use Libreoffice which is free.

That particular laptop linked to above is only going to be capable of playing Sims 4 at the low quality video setting and will likely still end up getting rather hot. Sadly, even an older game like that (2014?) is still going to need a higher spec laptop than you'll get for £300. Does she need to take it to school, or do you mean for homework? You'd get more performance for your money in a desktop.

It happily plays Civ5 and Civ6 and has now been running continuously for 6 weeks without getting hot.

Not tried or looked into Civ 6, but my 6 year old laptop with integrated Intel graphics runs Civ 5 fine. Not a hope of it coping with Sims 4.

The laptop linked to above is sadly the best you'll get for £300. As said by a PP, even older games like Sims won't work very well with a dual core 2.5 GHz processor.