jvs Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Yes we need to buy a laptop for a 16 year old student. I have no idea what to get. Sure there must be more parents with the same issue? Pro and cons,advice please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shady86 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Set a budget and let him/her to find whats best for him/her. Im sure a 16 year old knows their stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manarak Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 if "must" buy, then there are requirements? what are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KneeDeep Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Indeed it may depend on the subjects being studied. Someone doing 3D design may need something different from someone doing Advanced Maths. Find out more and let us know, along with your maximum budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 It is going to be her first laptop and she does not really know either. I think the budget is 15kbaht,i have seen some for that price. I will try to find out more but she does not not what she wants to study,she still has a while to make up her mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Asus E203 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 or Asus E406. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 My opine is get the tallest monitor possible. I got a screaming fast laptop at work and at home. Each has reasonably wide screen, but not tall enough. The test?? take a standard 8.5 " x 11 " piece of paper and if that doesn't fit standing up in the monitor space, than your monitor is too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 If you want to buy a good and reliable notebook look at Lenovo ThinkPad. They do the job and are sturdy. They are designed for work and not for games. And they are designed to function and not to have the newest gimmick look. But if the 16 year old student wants something like this that is a different question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerbeez Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 16 hours ago, jvs said: I think the budget is 15kbaht, Any laptop for 15,000 baht is going to be just fine for a student. It's really just a matter of screen size/portability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerbeez Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 The Lenovo IdeaPad 330 is less than 15,000 baht. This gets extra attention because it has 8GBs of RAM whereas most laptops in this range have just 4GBs of RAM. The downside is that it's big and heavy. https://www.advice.co.th/product/notebook/notebook-lenovo/notebook-lenovo-ideapad-330-81d200j9ta-black- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 18 minutes ago, killerbeez said: Any laptop for 15,000 baht is going to be just fine for a student. It's really just a matter of screen size/portability. Agree but would add battery life as well and not Lenovo unless a "Thinkpad". Last year, I helped a friend buy a laptop for her niece, close to the same age as the OP's daughter. We settled for an Asus WA-402 (Win-10, 14" display 500gb HD, AMD processor) for about B9000 from Lazada. It has held up well and has had no issues. This model is no longer listed as available but the Asus models suggested by other posters look pretty good. The Lenovo Thinkpad line is excellent but not the Lenovo consumer line sold in most stores...they have a poor record and if the same as a few years ago, horrendous service. I learned that the hard way. (Thikpads are not serviced by the same service as the consumer line) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KneeDeep Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 9 hours ago, SheungWan said: Asus E203 Absolutely not. She is sixteen, not six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KneeDeep Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 9 hours ago, SheungWan said: or Asus E406. Cheap and nasty. 1.1GHz processor, an SD card for storage and IPS is noticeably absent from the specification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 4 hours ago, killerbeez said: The Lenovo IdeaPad 330 is less than 15,000 baht. This gets extra attention because it has 8GBs of RAM whereas most laptops in this range have just 4GBs of RAM. The downside is that it's big and heavy. https://www.advice.co.th/product/notebook/notebook-lenovo/notebook-lenovo-ideapad-330-81d200j9ta-black- Youngsters tend to want a laptop which is light enough to carry around and looks at least a little bit stylish. For what most of them are going to to with them as their first laptop, higher spec not really necessary unless they are hard core gamers which hasn't been flagged by the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheungWan Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 52 minutes ago, KneeDeep said: Absolutely not. She is sixteen, not six. You think the girl in the video is six? PS I'm still using an old Asus 11.6" X202E laptop. Only 2GB of RAM and a little heavier than the E203. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KneeDeep Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 33 minutes ago, SheungWan said: You think the girl in the video is six? PS I'm still using an old Asus 11.6" X202E laptop. Only 2GB of RAM and a little heavier than the E203. You are not sixteen. Both laptops are unacceptable. Celeron CPU on par with the Celeron processor in my nine year old Toshiba laptop, low resolution screen and totally out of date HDD on the E203. Just terrible. An SD card for storage on the E406. Another cheap and nasty toy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 and of course get one that has solid state drive as many if not most do these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 It is going to be Asus 14x412ua. She does not want a really big/heavy one and there is not much available where she is.The shop she is getting it also does build and repairs so hopefully it will be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaanbiker Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 advice please? ( The answer is in your question..) Advice shops are all over the country and the best place to find an affordable notebook. Please don't buy an ACER, look for a Toshiba, Dell, HP, Lenovo, or other good brands. The second link shows some Dell notebooks. They come with a three-year warranty. https://www.advice.co.th/ https://www.advice.co.th/product/notebook?category=notebook-dell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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