Laptop for Parents

[Oonej]

Hi Guys

I'm looking to get a replacement laptop for my parents. They don't need anything fancy or super fast. I'm trying to find the best deal for the general purpose user for a machine to last them a while.

They were using this before: Asus X54H which you can see is nothing shy of pathetic. But they say it does everything they need. Unfortunately the monitor was damaged and now they need a new one. They bought this at Best Buy in 2012.

Their only main request was a camera so they can skype family members and ability to do all their online bills / facebook / emails. The cheaper the better.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Help my old folks out with finding a new pc! 😀

 

[USAFRet]

Any $350 and up laptop would work. The primary problem is all the preinstalled crapware.
ALL of that needs to be uninstalled, or just a full wipe and reinstall of the OS.

I recently went through this with a friends brand new Toshiba, and it was virtually unusable out of the box. Multiple competing Registry/health/virus scans....For a full hour after power on, 100% disk and CPU usage.

One of those scanner things reported "56 errors! Buy this to fix them!". This, on a 1 hour old laptop.

 

[velo3100]

I would say if you are willing to buy them, a chromebook as they are easy to set up, use and as they won't need much storage, it should satisfy them. The only problem is that the support for other devices that connect to it like a printer. A windows alternative would be a lenovo as they last long, are very robust, and are cheap and reliable.