Which laptop to choose "for parents"?

Question

Windows

Haven't created threads like this in a while.
The inevitable happened - at home, their dinosaur laptop was covered with a copper basin. They asked me to look for something for the house. I myself have been using poppies for the last 8 years, so when I saw the variety of Win-books on the market, my hands simply dropped. For this, I ask for advice from the habrazhites.

So, windows platform
Inches 15-17
Money 15 - 20,000

Many thanks in advance for your advice!

Answer 1

The choice of Win laptops 15-17 inches is so wide that it is very difficult to advise any particular one. There are enough of them in taste and color in every store. That is, it’s like recommending a microwave oven, your store may not have the model you need, but in any case you will find an identical analogue in every store. You just need to come to the computer equipment store and see what you like there. Even if someone says that the HP XXX Timeline U 777 is an excellent laptop, it will be in your city store with a small probability, but the exact same laptop from another company will be in this store for sure. We are not talking about an expensive laptop for professionals, we are talking about a regular laptop that stores are filled with. Here I have for 33 thousand rubles. 13' laptop, I work on it, I even played before, I can watch movies, but I'm not talking about how powerful it is, but about the fact that why parents need 15-17 inches, this is not your poppy that you use for work. If 13 inches is enough for me to work, I don’t think your parents are more demanding on screen size. Therefore, do not try to choose exactly 15+ screens. By the way, my resolution is 1366x768, which is enough for the Internet, films (and for me for work). But it's up to you. Good luck.
PS And if you take a laptop with the hope that they will use the touch screen, then the price plays a huge role. Cheap low-quality laptops have such terrible touch-screens, if you try to use a laptop with the same characteristics for 20-30 thousand and 10-15, the difference is noticeable at the first touch.
About windows wanted to add. I have a friend, my sister, who only plays 1-2 games, and the rest of the time she surfs the Internet or watches cartoons installed instead of win, just like she has a Linux system on her computer, or to be more precise, the latest Ubuntu. I can only say that she is still happily using the system and is surprised that linux does not need a hacked antivirus program, constant cleaning of the computer so that it does not lag after several months of work and other things. That is, if your parents only sit on the Internet, the ideal option not to spoil their nerves is to install Ubuntu. If you need Word documents, then ubuntu has all the tools for this and identical free software that even allows you to save files in a format as if they were created on Windows. In stores you can find laptops without pre-installed Windows OS, this will save some money and overpay them better for a laptop, and not for an OS. Good luck again.

Answer 2

I recently bought my parents a laptop Lenovo G780 (17'', 1600x900, Core i3, 4GB, GeForce GT635M, 500GB HDD) for 18k. The laptop is very smart, my father likes to drive NFS MW, so I took it with this video card, it is enough. The screen is not bad, the keyboard is very good, one of the best in inexpensive laptops. Moreover, the laptop is very light, almost completely weightless for its size.
I was very pleased with the laptop, as were my parents.

Answer 3

Notebooks from Lenovo ( 15.6 and 17.3 ) are quite good in terms of price / quality ratio, especially since there are a lot of configurations. There are 3 Lenovo laptops of different years in the family (1, 3 and 5 years old) - they serve well, there are no complaints.

Answer 4

Lenovo 15.6 "on pentium or i3 processors (depending on the budget). I took my father - good cars; of the well-known brands, the most sophisticated for their money (12,000). It so happened that I myself have ibm / lonovo-water with experience, but In market research, it turned out that Lenova has almost no competitors in this sector.

Answer 5

If the parents are no longer young and the vision is not like an eagle, then first of all choose a laptop with a large screen, the rest of the parameters will clearly be better than that of a dead computer. If parents with a computer are not on you, you should not listen to hard-nosed Linuxoids and install all sorts of ubunts.
Iron in any case, it is better to take the average, the probability of failure from overheating, etc. will be nowhere.
The problem can only be with the new Windows 8, its seisas is shoved everywhere, and it can take a lot of time to retrain people.
I would also advise you to think about a tablet, it may turn out to be quite a worthy replacement

Answer 6

I chose a Toshiba Satellite C870-D8W with a Rapoo 1090p mouse.
Everyone liked everything, except for Windows 8.
This is some kind of enchantingly inconvenient, incomprehensible, unpredictably slow dungeon.
The laptop itself is very pleasant - appearance, weight, battery, screen, sound - everything is on the level.
It is mainly used as a TV for IPTV and as a video player for plasma.