Best Laptop for Daughter

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beenz

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#154155 19-Oct-2014 19:10

Ok I have a daughter who is just off to UNI,

Wants a laptop, new.
Budget $1500 to include office.
Screen size 15-16.
No Apple products

Also wants it to look funkey (sorry not my choice)
So styling and colour is important,
Pink is preferred colour (again sorry guys not my choice !!)

So any recommendations please ?

Thanks

mattwnz

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#1158022 19-Oct-2014 19:17

Screen Resolution, touch screen? I would recommend touch screen with windows 8 after using a touch screen laptop for the last few weeks. If they are s student, they should get cheap access to office, so you may want to hold off buying office until they have started. The sony laptops are very stylish looking.

beenz

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#1158030 19-Oct-2014 19:25

Sorry.no touch screen

alexx

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#1158042 19-Oct-2014 20:09

The Sony VIAO range used to to have some laptops available in pink and would meet the pink and stylish requirements. I think I read somewhere that Sony were getting out of the laptop and pc market, but perhaps some options are still available.

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scuwp

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#1158080 19-Oct-2014 20:44

...just put some girly stickers on it.

Lazy is such an ugly word, I prefer to call it selective participation

Coil

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#1158082 19-Oct-2014 20:48

My sister loves the touch screen laptop i got for her. Cost like $500 at PB Tech with a average I5 4xxx and 4GB Ram.
Nice little ASUS.

I dunno about PINK. Really a chick off to Uni shouldn't give 2 effs about a laptop colour and prefer functionality. Bummer they dont sell those fluro VIAO's now.

solaybro

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#1158083 19-Oct-2014 20:51

My University offers Microsoft Office for free so you should look to see if your daughters uni have the same offer.

timmmay

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#1158086 19-Oct-2014 20:59

Asus Vivobook. My wife has a smaller pink one, you should be able to get 15" for that money. They have too many models for me to look through. My Dad got a Sony a while back based on my recommendation, it lasted a few years but it was never moved from a house, not sure I'd buy one. It has weird keys too, not so good for typing.

Suggest you put in an aftermarket SSD (check the height, they vary), and also set up good backups - Crashplan or similar or BitTorrent Sync back to your computer. All drives fail and regular online backups could save uni work.

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Username01

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#1158099 19-Oct-2014 21:20

Best not to prematurely ignore Windows tablets. Dell laptop-equiped daughter gnawing my ears off on this.