If your 7 year olds home work is either "visit this website and take this quiz, print out your results" or "research this topic on the internet", pen & paper won't get you very far unfortunately :/

Because of rose tinted spectacles.

"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"

Well because the technology wasn't:

1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough

Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.

Ahh yes, the failure of the education system has become very affordable.

Pen and Paper never hurt me!

Nice find and price. I'm guessing its very similar to one I bought the missus after Christmas that was listed on HUKD.
I swapped out the RAM in it to 8gb, didnt bother with the HD upgrade to SSD and its fine for surfing the web, running office and email etc. Would suggest you tell the kids not to expect it to be quick and not install the latest high overhead games on it as It'll fail badly, but if you need it for basics, its a great little machine. Not sure if you get a DVD/ CD drive on this one (or even want one) but I commented on the other thread that you could either buy one to add internally or get an external player for around £20. Perfectly fine if you'd like it to double up as a DVD player too.

cpu might not be great but good find for £99. ssds are really cheap now so swap out thr 500GB hdd for a 128GB Ssd and it'll fly. also guessing the 2GB RAM is ungradable?

Forgot to say they only had the one on sale but I asked at the counter and they have quite a few out back

Likely to be nation wide or local?

None in Walsall, Wednesfield or Cannock

Because of rose tinted spectacles.

"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"

Well because the technology wasn't:

1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough

Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.

Maybe because taking a test on a website is a cop out for the teacher? It's a lot easier to say that than it is to actually compose some homework for children.
Not that I'd be against a bit of computer homework but not very child will have a computer at home or internet access and children that young should be learning to write legibly and count rather than relying on a computer for everything.
You see it in shops all the time now the assistants look at you as if you have just grown a second head because you can do basic mental arithmetic.

Couldn't see this laptop in my local.

​It's not a cop out for the teacher at all, if anything it gives them a little extra time to do something else.

If you stopped your pathetic 'back in my day' attitude for a minute you might realise how hard modern teachers have to work compared to those years ago.

​are you Nicky Morgan in disguise as you clearly know nothing about education? Ironically my wife is actually having problems with some of the younger kids at school because they haven't used a PC, but every house has tablets and phones. I wish some of these parents would prioritise a cheap PC over Sky TV. My mental arithmetic is very poor, on the other hand my computing skills are very good. People like you are ironically one of the biggest problems facing big business and government organisations when it comes to accountancy. The instance on doing things the old fashioned way is the main reason that massive mistakes are made as opposed to just creating a script to do it all. Of course that would highlight how overpaid the majority of the people doing it the old way are...

By the way my phone changed Are to are before you get smart...

Jesus! Insistence of! Proving my point on why PC as opposed to phone skills are needed... bloody smartphone!

Do you know whether it has Office installed on it? Thank you. :smiley:

Unfortunately not. It had a "trial" but not the full version which you then pay to activate a license or subscription for office 365. From what I remember, it comes with the basic operating system (windows 8.1 which I upgraded to Windows 10), some basic photo editing software, a bunch of trialware (games mostly) I immediately uninstalled and a virus scanner (AVG I think not not sure). Not sure if that will be the same for this though.

Thank you for letting me know! :smiley:

You're welcome. :smiley:

Just picked one up for my 8 yr old used double up cost 60...deal

Why is the World so hell bent insistent that we come from these very unintellectual Ape Men/Neanderthal Man (or whatever the hell it is?).

Do Human Beings not believe Human Beings as intelligent again?, or what ..... I don't know. :-(

Hmmmmmmmmmm, lol.