Reply to: New Laptop for Child

[FiveTimes]

I bought this for my 11-yo daughter for her birthday last week. Got home, realised it was single core and went back to swap it for the dual-core machine. £70 more but if I was going to spend £370, what's another £70 (equivalent to the time spent doing a couple of dumps at ClientCo).

Also in pink!!!

I think it was worth going for the dual-core as she likes to edit home movies taken with her HD camcorder and then burn them to DVD. Okay, it's not a professional standard laptop, but it matches the requirement, and gets her off my desktop...

Dohhh I forgot to see if it was dual core. Still the extra would have taken the overall cost > £400 which was the upper limit.

I'd personally buy her a netbook but her words "They are way toooooo small"

I'm sure it will do the job, its only for home work, facebook, msn and music.

I didn't want to go down the pink route but I got rail roaded by the wife. I'd have gone with the lenova mentioned above.

[Clippy]

I ended up getting a Dell Inspiron 1545 from tesco, 3G Ram bluetooth, webcam etc ... Should have been £379 but I got nephew to get it for me using staff discount so all in it came to £342.
The "bonus" is that its pink !

I bought this for my 11-yo daughter for her birthday last week. Got home, realised it was single core and went back to swap it for the dual-core machine. £70 more but if I was going to spend £370, what's another £70 (equivalent to the time spent doing a couple of dumps at ClientCo).

Also in pink!!!

I think it was worth going for the dual-core as she likes to edit home movies taken with her HD camcorder and then burn them to DVD. Okay, it's not a professional standard laptop, but it matches the requirement, and gets her off my desktop...

Like this one?

Also, in Red.

[Flubster]

I ended up getting a Dell Inspiron 1545 from tesco, 3G Ram bluetooth, webcam etc ... Should have been £379 but I got nephew to get it for me using staff discount so all in it came to £342.
The "bonus" is that its pink !

I bought this for my 11-yo daughter for her birthday last week. Got home, realised it was single core and went back to swap it for the dual-core machine. £70 more but if I was going to spend £370, what's another £70 (equivalent to the time spent doing a couple of dumps at ClientCo).

Also in pink!!!

I think it was worth going for the dual-core as she likes to edit home movies taken with her HD camcorder and then burn them to DVD. Okay, it's not a professional standard laptop, but it matches the requirement, and gets her off my desktop...

[FiveTimes]

I ended up getting a Dell Inspiron 1545 from tesco, 3G Ram bluetooth, webcam etc ... Should have been £379 but I got nephew to get it for me using staff discount so all in it came to £342.
The "bonus" is that its pink !

[xux42]

Cheers,

I can't see office pro @ pugh for £33, more like £44 ?

Sorry yes £33 is the Win7 Pro price.

[FiveTimes]

Yeah, as d00hg says, you may need to call MS.

Saw this deal posted on HUKD.

Its just strayed over the £400 barrier. Tesco Direct have a Lenovo G555 with 3G RAM for ~ £359.00 plus 3% quidco cashback and double clubcard points.

I'm leaning towards this at the mo

[DaveB]

Next question :
The current laptop has valid office 2007 professional on, multi license (3 I think).

Can I un-install from old lappy and just bang it on the new one ? Or is the license tied to the machine ?

Worst that will happen is that it will pop up a dialogue box with a phone number and instructions on what to do. The whole thing is automated, you wont talk to a real person.

[Clippy]

Yeah, as d00hg says, you may need to call MS.

Saw this deal posted on HUKD.

[d000hg]

I'm 99% sure it will work just fine. I seem to remember 2007 requires online activation so they would know it's installed, but easiest is to simply install on the new PC, try to activate it and see what happens. I believe you can phone MS to sort these things out if you have a license but it won't allow it, you can with Windows licenses anyhow.

[DimPrawn]

Next question :
The current laptop has valid office 2007 professional on, multi license (3 I think).

Can I un-install from old lappy and just bang it on the new one ? Or is the license tied to the machine ?

Do you think MS really cares?

If you have a licensed CD of office, I'd just remove it from the old lappy and put it on the new one.

[FiveTimes]

Next question :
The current laptop has valid office 2007 professional on, multi license (3 I think).

Can I un-install from old lappy and just bang it on the new one ? Or is the license tied to the machine ?

[FiveTimes]

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Good spot DP

[DimPrawn]

HP G61-401SA Laptop - Laptops | Ebuyer.com

Hewlett Packard

HP G61-401SA Laptop - Sleek and Stylish

Intel Celeron Dual Core T3100 1.9GHz
4GB RAM, 320GB HDD
15.6" HD BrightView
Webcam + Bluetooth, DVD Writer
Windows 7 Home Premium

Save £70.00
Now £379.99inc. vat

Bargain!

[Fred Bloggs]

how about this one ?

Seems to tick all the boxes

Buy Lenovo G Series 250GB 15.6in Laptop. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for .

That's the one I got for £299 on an offer, Lenovo G555. Very happy for <300 notes I am too.

[FiveTimes]

Looks good - uninstall MS Office trial & yucky antivirus
Install Avast anti virus for free and get MS Office Pro Student licence from Pugh for £33 + delivery. Or office 2003 from Ebay for £30 if you don't like *.docx, *.xlsx and Office 2010's pants front end.
Sorted.

Cheers,

I can't see office pro @ pugh for £33, more like £44 ?