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7 year old has an HP Stream when he goes to stay with his father every other weekend. It's really underpowered compared to his basic Lenovo i3 laptop at home. It will run Roblox but won't do Minecraft. I went through the Stream and took out all the usual bloaty crap but it's still a very basic machine.
Chromebooks don't run Roblox 100% well on Chrome OS. The vast majority of the games work on there but I find a few won't. Some of the more graphically intensive games like Bloxburg really struggle on my Chromebook.
So really I would up the budget to £300, ditch the pink idea, and buy a basic laptop that will do everything she wants for two to three years.
You can get stick on covers for laptops in various guises .... they sell them in the shop I do the repairs for.
Although SSD's make a difference in boot times, program loading etc the won't help with any processor intensive task once it's loaded in memory .... I like SSD's and have one in my laptop and in my iMac but they aren't the wonder treatment and in some cases can cause big problems .... data recovery from a failed SSD is a lot harder and sometime's impossible and they DO go wrong a lot.
I think an eight year old and a cheap laptop with flimsy plastic is basically a bad idea all round. They simply aren't built well enough to survive children, they fall apart quick enough when used by adults. If I had to give a kid that young a machine it would be a desktop set in one place or a refurb ex BT Panasonic Toughbook
Beware of cheap passworded Toughbooks the passwords stored in a EEPROM and a bastard to remove even when you got the gear and know what your doing
Roblox doesn't need a lot. My daughters play it on the 2nd gen i3 (released in 2011) that I mentioned above.
Having said that, it is a desktop i3, so it's a lot faster than an equivalent laptop processor. It actually scores higher on Passmark than some of the 6th gen laptop i3s.
It's also still a lot higher than some of the processors that are in these budget laptops.
If you look at the £229 HP at Argos that @robgilmo linked to above. It appears to have an AMD E2-7110 from what Google tells me. It's always a bit worrying when the retailer doesn't actually list the specific processor! The Passmark score on that processor is 2281. I paid about £50 for that i3 on a motherboard with 4GB of RAM (and that was a year or two ago). It is still outscoring that new AMD by 72%.
The refurb Dell with the Celeron® N3060 is even worse. That scores 984. That's worse than the old Core 2 Duo desktop chips.
I think @Heartfeltdawn is right. You are better off looking at a slightly higher budget.
https://www.laptopoutlet.co.uk/hp-14-bs044na-14-laptop-intel-pentium-n3710-1-6-ghz-2-56-ghz-turbo-quad-core-processor-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-windows-10-home-2cq55ea-abu.html?___SID=U
Small boy here runs Roblox and Minecraft on an Acer Aspire ES1-533 with a Celeron N3350 processor. Passmark is 1114 so slow processor, 4gb RAM is underpowered, and the hard drive is slow. It's fine for Roblox and Minecraft and sod all else in my view. 'twas a closeout £200 deal and it's done its job and will do for another year until it's time to move to something else.
That N3710 processor benches at 1862.
The Celeron N3350 pootles at 1114.
This would appear to be the step up in the range and would clock in around £300.
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/nav/pt/laptops/c/new/ssdgroup/120gb-and-above/mc/48361?sortOrder=1
Personally I'd up the budget.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06Y2W2NJX/ref=asc_df_B06Y2W2NJX57153183/?tag=googshopuk-21&creative=22146&creativeASIN=B06Y2W2NJX&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310819184817&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6928110057592332475&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007106&hvtargid=pla-562775203360
That might do as an alternative. Not going to be the quickest machine around but it's small, light, and can be a tablet or a laptop (handy for keeping kids quiet in the car...).
No more “homework” then?
Bit cynical, Tony? :-)
My guess is she needs a hoverboard... so she can get home from school in nano seconds... and have even more time to spend doing extra homework.
Admirable!