Laptops ideas for a 10 year old

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Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

My daughter is in the same boat. She is 11 and in her first year of middle school. Next semester she has a computer class, and her current classes make use of technology as well, which is pretty cool.

My folks want to get her a netbook for Christmas. I have not yet done any research to figure out which brand is best, although Dell is off my list at the moment. My Dad has a Dell notebook, and he wanted to put in some additional Ram. I was going to do it for him, but it is a major, major pain in the ass to put memory in a Dell netbook. Practically have to take the whole thing apart.

So far I know that I want a netbook with either 2gb of ram, or one that the ram can be reasonably easy to upgrade.

I would imagine that there will be some nice Christmas shopping deals on netbooks this season as holiday sales get going.

Dell notebooks have had a single user accessible panel for accessing the memory slots for close to 10 years now. Generally it only takes 1-3 screws to remove the panel and install new RAM. I've been working on Dell laptops for almost 15 years, and I've never encountered one that required taking the whole thing apart or anything even close to that.

Dell has some pretty good small profile notebook solutions right now. And I can assure you that every one of them offers easy access for RAM upgrades.