Refurbished Laptop for School

[Lonewolf]

I was considering buying an 11 year old a refurbished laptop which will probably mainly used for school work. What do you guys suggest would be an ideal purchase?

 

[Lonewolf]

something newer than an 11 year refurb.

What's your budget?

As low as possible

 

[Lonewolf]

I don’t want to open the can of worms which is Gumtree. I have seen options on a couple of websites but with a £200 budget I’m a little hesitant. The laptop wouldn’t get a much use because she already uses Apple alternatives.

 

[Lonewolf]

What do they use at her school, iPads, Chrome books, Windows laptops / desktops and has she just started secondary school or is she moving up to another school next year and then might want something different?



Do you mean iPad?

Buy her a bluetooth keyboard, maybe one of those pens?



Does she have a TV in her room, there are ex corporate refurb mini PC's about the size of a book, think ex NHS etc as long as its 8th gen or newer.

Other options:
Give her your old PC and build yourself a 9800x3d super doopa thing with a NVIDIA 5090
Or turn her into a geek and get her something like a Raspberry Pi and teach her linux

It’s the first year in secondary school where they’re using desktop computers.