11.6" notebook <= £200 ?

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Looking for a notebook for student use, my niece, 6th year school and university in a couple of years.

I've noticed a lot of notepads have SSD drives of about 32gb whereas some have 500gb which I assume to sata ?

I'm aiming at a 64bit notepad so should really look at 4GB ram so it doesn't struggle with Win 8.1

Can anyone recommend a decent model please ?
 
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Not sure what you mean by 'assume to sata' - sata is just the connection type. An SSD will make things a bit faster, however on a notebook like this it's unlikely that it will be noticeable. It'll boot up faster and programs will open a bit quicker (but you'd only be talking about a web browser and office software, which aren't overly slow anyway). The overriding factor will be how much space she actually needs - if this is something she's planning on keeping for a good while then it's quite likely that 32GB simply won't be enough, especially once you get Windows installed on it. That sort of thing is more for people using it as a secondary machine, eg. they're going back to the office every day and just have the notebook for work on the train. Once she starts storing her work, photos, videos and music on it the space will rapidly disappear, so the 500GB may be a necessity.

Unfortunately I can't recommend a decent model as I don't know much about them, I just thought the above might help you narrow down your choice a bit.
 
Ended up getting a Acer Aspire E3-112

When I assumed the 500GB hdd was sata, its because SSDs don't have that capacity and modern notepads don't use IDE.

Anyway, it has 4GB ram and a 500GB hdd and working well apparently. Mainly internet and office work.

I wasn't aware till now that celeron cpus are available in dual core format, always thought they were budget cpus for basic computing.


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