£400 for a 10 year old Xmas pressie iPad 2 or lap top?

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£400 for a 10 year old Xmas pressie iPad 2 or lap top?
geordiemick00
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My daughter needs some sort of lap top/pc for usual kids stuff, internet, photo’s music etc and the odd bit of webcam chat with me.

As a mac owner I’d like to get her an iPad but a lap top would undoubtedly be more capable if needed to be.

My thoughts are a iPad would be more reliable than a £400 lap top which would surely be lower end of the spectrum??

Posted 13 years ago

Jamie
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Get a laptop. £400 would buy you something very handy.

Posted 13 years ago

mastiles_fanylion
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£400?

For Christmas?

Sweet holy jeebus.

Posted 13 years ago

Jamie
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£400?

For Christmas?

Sweet holy jeebus.

Oh and this^^ obviously.

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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What’s wrong with £400 for your daughter for christmas?
How much domyou love your daughter?

Posted 13 years ago

geordiemick00
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Get a laptop. £400 would buy you something very handy.

£350??

any links/specs appreciated of course

Posted 13 years ago

Stoner
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What’s wrong with £400 for your daughter for christmas?

Id want at least £20k for each of my sons. Not a penny less.

Posted 13 years ago

5thElefant
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I’d look at an Asus eee transformer.

Nothing wrong with a £400 present. Wait until the car for her 17th birthday (or the insurance).

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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Dell, dell everytime.

Why not ipod?

Posted 13 years ago

Jamie
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@Mick

Something along these lines.

Posted 13 years ago

mastiles_fanylion
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Our daughters’ main present (shared between them) from us is a second hand rocking horse off EBay – £46.

🙁

Posted 13 years ago

vorlich
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pad, pencil and clip round the ear. 😉

Posted 13 years ago

TandemJeremy
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CharlieMungus – Member

What’s wrong with £400 for your daughter for christmas?
How much domyou love your daughter?

How much yuo spend and how much you love someone are not linked. You don’t show your love with a checkbook

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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Our daughters’ main present (shared between them) from us is a second hand rocking horse off EBay – £46.

Times is tough, I think lots of kids will get a bit of a bite of reality this year

Posted 13 years ago

AdamW
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Our daughters’ main present (shared between them) from us is a second hand rocking horse off EBay – £46.

And they will love you just as much as if you got them iPads.

If you give them the box it came in to play with they’ll be as happy as, erm, Harriets!

Posted 13 years ago

geordiemick00
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Dell, dell everytime.

NEver again, I bought daughter A one last year and it was utter shit, 5 minutes to boot up fresh out of the box, awful product.

Why not ipod?

She’s got my old one and needs a decent web browser..

Something along these lines.

Cheers Jamie

Posted 13 years ago

5thElefant
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How much yuo spend and how much you love someone are not linked. You don’t show your love with a checkbook

Well no, not since the credit card and dedit card replaced them a couple of decades ago.

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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How much yuo spend and how much you love someone are not linked. You don’t show your love with a checkbook

Well, that’s taken for granted, no one uses checks anymore, grandad!

Posted 13 years ago

RealMan
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5 minutes to boot up fresh out of the box, awful product.

Don’t laptops take a while on their first set up….?

She’s got my old one and needs a decent web browser..

A 10 year old needs a decent web browser? For what…? Genuinely interested here.

Posted 13 years ago

mastiles_fanylion
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To be fair it isn’t because we can’t afford more as such, but they are young and won’t appreciate it is second hand over buying the same one new for £320.

But I would rather we saved more for important things (such as future uni costs) than spunk loads on presents – their granny and grandad can do that 😉

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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A 10 year old needs a decent web browser? For what…? Genuinely interested here.

Well my kids use them for school work, games, googling the hard questions and Moshi Monsters

Posted 13 years ago

andrewh
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😯 £400 on a christmas present?!
And for a 10 year old?
Seriously?
What does she need one for that can’t be done on the PC in the living room?

Posted 13 years ago

5thElefant
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You have a PC in the living room? Do you have a photocopier too?

Posted 13 years ago

mefty
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I use a Sony Vaio with a 11.6″ screen, which costs £380, for my work I would have thought it would be more than sufficient for your daughter.

BTW they are cheques.

Posted 13 years ago

anto164
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Get a laptop. She can then connect her iphone and share the pictures of her pony with the world.

Posted 13 years ago

geordiemick00
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Well my kids use them for school work, games, googling the hard questions and Moshi Monsters

£400 on a christmas present?!
And for a 10 year old?
Seriously?
What does she need one for that can’t be done on the PC in the living room?

it’s split in half between me and her mother (we’re estranged) and she don’t have a PC in the living room, the only other PC is the mothers work PC which is a Dell and shit too.

looked at the Dell that Jamie kindly linked me too and the website just doithers repeatedly, wether viewed through Chrome or Safari. Not looking good for Dell……

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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Vaio for 380?

Posted 13 years ago

andrewh
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The PC is in the study, but not everyone has a study.
Anyway, what is the world coming to, something like that will have a life-expectancy of about 3 weeks in the clumsy hands of an average 10 year old. Ask her what she had last year and i’ll bet she can’t remember, or indeed still uses whatever it was.
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it’s split in half between me and her mother (we’re estranged)

I wonder how much of modern present buying is down to parents competing with each other? At least you have avoid that!

Posted 13 years ago

rs
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Maybe a case of dad looking for an excuse to buy a new gadget… it’s for the kids… honest!

Posted 13 years ago

emsz
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will someone please buy me a laptop for £400.

I’ll do stuff

Posted 13 years ago

deadlydarcy
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I knew what TeeJ meant.

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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will someone please buy me a laptop for £400.

I’ll do stuff

You gotta call me Daddy

Posted 13 years ago

Coyote
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Dell are excellent machines. I use a Latitude E6400 and it’s faultless. Bought many desktops and laptops and had little to no trouble with them.

Posted 13 years ago

Cougar
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Trying to remember what I got for my tenth birthday. I think it was a ZX Spectrum. Can you still get those?

Joking aside, ignoring cost etc the iPad is still a bit, ah, serious, isn’t it? Wouldn’t she rather have a 3DS and Nintendogs?

Posted 13 years ago

emsz
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Yeah cool mungus, lappy first, right? 😆

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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Yeah cool mungus, lappy first, right?

Yeah, for sure! Good idea, start with a lap dance!

Posted 13 years ago

CharlieMungus
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Trying to remember what I got for my tenth birthday. I think it was a ZX Spectrum. Can you still get those?

Is that about the same value as an ipad nowadays?

Posted 13 years ago

Coyote
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Trying to remember what I got for my tenth birthday. I think it was a ZX Spectrum. Can you still get those?

Is that about the same value as an ipad nowadays?

Mungo makes a good point.

FWIW, after seeing the robust quality of Apple product and their resilience to being dropped much more than 3″, it would be the last thing I would give to a 10 y/o. Get the laptop.

Posted 13 years ago

AdamW
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Yeah, for sure! Good idea, start with a lap dance!

Well if you insist. Which do you prefer: leopard or tiger thong? Seriously though, does my bum look big in this? 😀

Posted 13 years ago

Jamie
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I knew what TeeJ meant.

Only cuz ur old looooool!

Posted 13 years ago

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