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Best Cheap Laptop for Kids 2020

February 26, 2018 by Mandy Wright

Looking for laptops for your kids? You would not only want to know the cheapest laptops in the current market but also the ones that are going to serve your child’s purpose. Knowing what your child is going to use the laptop for is the first and foremost step into selecting which is the best one.

Points to look out for while selecting Laptops

Living in a technological era, parents sometimes find it difficult and even uninformed on how to choose gadgets for their child. Here are some handy tips which will help you to choose the best laptop while being economical.

Operating system

Your child will get an education on the laptops and will work with them in school. So it is wise to know what OS the school is providing them and then buy a laptop with that OS be it Chrome, Windows or Mac OS. All of them are good in editing media files, programming or even playing PC games.

Size of laptop

Keep the size and the weight of laptop appropriate to your kid as it is an important factor in terms of comfortable usage. Go for laptops with 11.6-inch screen, weighing under 3 pounds for children under the age of 12. Laptops with 13-14 inch screen and weighing up to 4 pounds is good for teens. Don’t buy large and heavy laptops, if it is going to be moved around the house or your child would want to carry it somewhere.

Durability

Look for laptops that are durable as kids are clumsy and might drop it or spill food, liquid etc on them.

Look for cheaper options

Always look for laptops that are cheap and contains all features you require. You wouldn’t want to gift any fancy expensive gadget to your child because they are going to misuse it by dropping it or breaking it. Keep your budget under $500 for 12-year-old kids and $800 for teenagers.

Here are reviews of few best laptops for kids.

 

1. Dell Inspiron 11.6-inch 2-in-1

This laptop is considered as a versatile laptop as it offers all necessary features. It is fully equipped with 11.6 inches screen, Intel Core m3 processor, 4 GB of RAM and has LED-backlit touch display offering support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint for school work. It also includes parental controls which can be accessed through Family Web Portal. You can provide safe and secure environment to your child with features like set screen timer, limit app and game downloads and giving access to certain sites only.

As we discussed the need for durability, this laptop provides durability which is tested and assured by the company itself, providing long lasting guarantee.

Lastly, with covering all the necessary aspects of a good laptop, it also is cheap and within a comfortable price range. It should definitely be on your list.

 

2. Lenovo’s Ideapad 100S

Another laptop that is on top of our list is Lenovo’s Ideapad 100S. This laptop offers 11.6 inch display, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC memory. It supports Windows 10 and MS Office, makes it a perfect buy for school going kids.

It is light weighted (2.2 pounds) and thin (0.69 inches), which makes it portable and comfortable to carry around. With microSD card slot, you can expand memory up to 64 GB. It also supports parental control via Family portal, which ensures that parents don’t have to worry about their child getting exposed to a lot of inadequate content.

This is again, best cheapest laptop for your kids offering wide range of features.

 

3. Apple’s Macbook Air 13-inch

Along with the trusted brand name, Apple has rarely disappointed their users. With its great user experience and functionality, this laptop offers dual-core Intel i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD storage. This laptop is surely long lasting in terms of battery life with one charge cycle running up to 12 hours. Its design is attractive with it being light weight and thin.

Built in parental control ensures safe and secure environment for the child and parents don’t have to worry about their child’s usage. It ensures this with blocking the use of camera and restricting interaction with people via email or messaging apps. You can also control apps, music and various other downloads and also allows access to printer and scanner setting.

 

4. Acer Chromebook R11

This is the best laptop if your main concern is about the parental-control features. You can create a separate login for your kid while you being the “Owner” account of the Laptop. Your child will log in through “Supervised user”. Under this, you can capture all Web activity that’s being used as they cannot delete Web History. Moreover, you can enable Google’s safe search and blacklist websites not to be visited.

In addition to all these features, this laptop has a multi-purpose 2-in-1 convertible body with outstanding performance and good battery life.

 

5. Microsoft Surface Pro 4

This machine is a unique blend of tablet and laptop with quick and easy detachment of Type cover that converts Surface into a tablet. Its intuitive UI interface is easily adaptable by kids which is supported by 12.3 inch PixelSense display made for viewing, touching and writing via Surface Pen.

This laptop has Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage and eight hours of battery life, weighing 1.73 pounds. Along, with this it has parental control via Family Web Portal, giving parents to lock inadequate sites and limit screen time.

 

6. Asus Chromebook C202

In terms of physical design, this laptop wins the durability test, as it fashions a reinforced rubber guard that goes around the entire laptop, protecting it from any dropping, bumps or scratches. It also has a spill-resistant keyboard and is lightweight with 10 hours of battery life.

The Chromebook C202 is equipped with Intel Celeron N3060 processor, 16GB of storage, 4GB of RAM and has an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 anti-glare display. It is virus-resistant and with enough parental control so parents don’t have to worry about any mishap or wrong usage of online websites. They could also limit screen time and block any harmful extensions to Chrome giving it a wonderful experience for parents as well as kids.

 

7. Asus T102HA

Asus comes up with an impeccable design, offered with 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 display. It has an adjustable kickstand for more comfortable viewing and keyboard that is locked to screen via magnet. Its restricted keyboard is specially designed for kids so that they can have more comfortable typing experience. It is powered by an Intel Atom quad-core X5 processor, 4GB of RAM and provides storage of about 128GB.

It also protects web usage for kids through parental control features via Family Web portal. Parents looking for pocket-friendly choice with amazing features should opt for this laptop.

 

8. VTech Tote and G

This is really an amazing machine for kids aged 3 years to 6 years. It could be called as a beginner’s laptop as it gives kids an insight into the real world, introducing them to spelling, shapes, words, animals and more. It is equipped with interactive activities like counting age, explore shapes, numbers, and alphabets.

It also equips kids with problem-solving skills through a puzzle and logic games. This could be a stepping stone for any kid before they get hands on the real laptops with Windows and Mac OS setting.

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