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Jnr received his Lenovo thingy yesterday (birthdays don't get much better than that for a 12 year old Albion nut). Anyhoo at present giving time I realised I hadn't bought any t'internet security for it. What can I download (preferably free) to use as a sticking plaster, while I sort out all...

Unless someone comes up with something different it'll be a Lenovo IdeaPad, £139. The outfit I've bought my last couple of towers from have a Refurbished Dell Latitude E5420 Laptop Dual Core 1.9Ghz 4GB 160GB Win 7 Pro for £10 cheaper, but I think I'll stick with 'box fresh'. I know I keep...

Ok so I'm just about to crack open my wallet, any more advise before I buy later tonight? It seems £150 gets me most of what's mention here, assuming I steer clear of G-Anica :shrug:

Just before I felt school the science block burned down (the 2 are unconnected). Throughout my schooling TIC consisted of 2 of these:- surrounded by all the pupils so socially inept even I was able to look down on them, just. Through that final term and then summer an ITC suite was built...

Blimey for a minute then I thought you weren't going to write a single word I understood, I'm glad you got there in the end. Thanks for that.

What a bunch of swats, just don't write anything and go into hiding for the week after parents evening. Never did me any harm - said the postman who is acutely aware that one day he'll be replaced by a shaved monkey.

Is that right, re Chromebooks & printers? I can't just connect one to the other with a USB cable.

Yesterdays homework was through Chrome Docs. The poor little sods now have all their homework written up and sent to their 'Show My Homework' account, for me to check. Long gone are the days of pupil Stat occasionally writing a half arsed line about what's expected from a full terms project...

A competent father.

It's quite apparent Jnr will be needing a laptop for his birthday now he's started big school! Looking around NSC other laptop threads have a budget around £1000 - ideally I'd like to take a '0' off that number. As and when I wade into the refurb market what basic requirements should I be...