LigTasm
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2011
- Messages
- 6,648
Hey guys, I'm looking to pick up a laptop for my elderly grandma. Her physical condition is pretty bad, but she enjoys looking through facebook a lot and playing some very light games (windows store stuff, basically mobile games).
Her requirements were these:
- Light and easy to move
- No number pad
- Fits in her travel bag ~13" max screen size
Unfortunately most of these specs fit into the ultrabook category and quite frankly it would be a waste to pay $1200-1500 for a Dell XPS or something of that nature because she simply doesn't need that much performance. 1366x768 screen is fine. What other options are out there? I'm not looking for dirt cheap $300 units but something reasonable given the usage would be nice. It must be windows based so the chromebooks are out, and I won't touch the low end flash storage laptops with a 10' pole.
Who else has models like this? Asus zenbook? Trying to search for this stuff leads to 11 billion different things that have nothing in common with what I need or a macbook which while it would be ideal simply won't work because she doesn't want to learn a new OS.
Her requirements were these:
- Light and easy to move
- No number pad
- Fits in her travel bag ~13" max screen size
Unfortunately most of these specs fit into the ultrabook category and quite frankly it would be a waste to pay $1200-1500 for a Dell XPS or something of that nature because she simply doesn't need that much performance. 1366x768 screen is fine. What other options are out there? I'm not looking for dirt cheap $300 units but something reasonable given the usage would be nice. It must be windows based so the chromebooks are out, and I won't touch the low end flash storage laptops with a 10' pole.
Who else has models like this? Asus zenbook? Trying to search for this stuff leads to 11 billion different things that have nothing in common with what I need or a macbook which while it would be ideal simply won't work because she doesn't want to learn a new OS.