Laptop recommendations for a 12 year old please

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Mainly to do homework on. Don't want to spend a fortune, just want something reliable!
Thank you!

My 12 year old uses a laptop in school and home as is cleared for typing. I wanted something that wouldn't break my heart if dropped, light , and there is a strict no games on it rule so it didn't need to have power.

He has an Asus notebook - link below. You need to stick an sd card in and set it up to save all documents, downloads etc onto that, not the c drive, which is tiny, but it gives you the price and weight and size of a chrome book type thing )£140) but with windows and Microsoft office on the hard drive so none of that reading the internet all the time rubbish if chrome books. Occasionally when windows does one of their huge updates I need to attach a remote hardrive just to do the update , but otherwise the pitiful 32gb of onboard memory is fine

They key board is nice size for children but my husband who has huge fat fingers and is a tightwad was so impressed that he has one for his ovule office when travelling and is really happy with it. Great battery life too.

Ideally I'd like exactly the same thing with more memory and ram, but there isn't anything like that on the market or not at anything at the same order of magnitude of price.

www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/asus-vivobook-e203-11-6-intel-celeron-laptop-32-gb-emmc-grey-10163801-pdt.html

Whatever you get, if it's going to move around get a padded sleeve and a further padded bag for it. Cracked screens get very expensive!

Will they be doing everything on Google drive as seems the norm in most schools? If so I would buy a Chrome Book - boots really quickly, long battery life, don’t have to worry re anti virus etc.

I would also recommend taking out the extended warranty if offered- my youngest dc has a chrome book from pc world which is currently having its second new screen in as many years replaced for free under the scheme. John Lewis has similar scheme.