If you are looking to buy a device for doing school work you should look for something like the following:


  1. Processor: Pentium or higher (i3/i5/i7)
  2. Memory: At least 4GB, 8GB would be better
  3. Hard Disk: At least 128GB SSD, bigger would be better but make sure it is an SSD and not an old style hard disk as these are much slower than SSD.
  4. Windows 10 or Windows 10 S (see Turning off Windows S mode if you want to run non-store apps on a Win 10 S device)


We tend to use Lenovo in school but we've previously used Dell, HP and Acer.


The price range you will be looking at will range from around £300-£400, up to £800+ for much higher specification devices. If you are just doing Internet work such as Teams, Office 365 you will be fine with a device at the lower end of the price range.

There are a variety of different styles of device - from desktop computers, standard laptops, touchscreen laptops all the way to tablet devices with detachable keyboards (e.g. Microsoft Surface), generally the more features and more fancy the device the higher the price.