Jenspm
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+1,716|6997|St. Andrews / Oslo

I'm a little late, her birthday is today

Anyways, she's studying Art Historie and she needs a laptop.

Things to take into consideration:
- It will ONLY be used for word and internet explorer.
- Her eye-sight isn't perfect, so I'm thinking a back-lit keyboard with clear letters would be nice
- Her typing is definately not perfect, so relatively big keys would be a plus, so she doesn't cramp up. A full keyboard would be nice.
- She'll probably just carry it in her purse most of the time, so something robust would be great.
- She walks to the university for lectures, so something not too heavy would be nice as well.
- I'm thinking 15" would be good, 17" is probably too big
- She does not need a num pad
- Fast boot times would be nice, but not required
- Non-glossy screen please
- She won't need a lot of HDD space. ~100GB will probably be more than enough.


I'd say the most important point is it being robust.

Annnnd go I'm not going to post a budget, but from the above you should be able to figure out that she doesn't need a fancy IGP, CPU, etc.

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+1,652|6832|NYC / Hamburg

how about a lenovo R500? Great build quality, awesome keyboard. Not backlit but it does have a little led above the screen that shines down on the keyboard and the surrounding area
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+1,447|6462|Winland

The HP Compaq nx6310 is quite robust, very cheap, has a low-res screen, great battery time and a pretty nice keyboard. I'm not sure they still make them, though.
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Jenspm
penis
+1,716|6997|St. Andrews / Oslo

ya, long battery life would be a huge plus.


Thanks for the suggestions guys, looking into them
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+2,206|7075|NÃ¥rvei

This one perhaps?

Full keyboard, doesn't say if illuminated or not ...
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