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My sister has recently requested help looking for a budget laptop, she uses a Macbook pro (I think) primarily but she doesn't want to spend too much on it considering she's going to be going to take it to work, she mostly does a bit of web browsing, video streaming, MS Office and basic people stuff like that. She set her budget on $200 but I think I can convince her to go up to $300 or hopefully more since a $200 laptop sounds like a terrible time for everyone. She'll probably want Windows, which I haven't used in years, and I was considering telling her to get a Chromebook but I don't think there's MS Office on that. Any suggestions would be more that welcome.

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I would suggest trying to find something second-hand for that price.

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I suggest you look at the used market. 

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11 minutes ago, Source Slayer said:

My sister has recently requested help looking for a budget laptop, she uses a Macbook pro (I think) primarily but she doesn't want to spend too much on it considering she's going to be going to take it to work, she mostly does a bit of web browsing, video streaming, MS Office and basic people stuff like that. She set her budget on $200 but I think I can convince her to go up to $300 or hopefully more since a $200 laptop sounds like a terrible time for everyone. She'll probably want Windows, which I haven't used in years, and I was considering telling her to get a Chromebook but I don't think there's MS Office on that. Any suggestions would be more that welcome.

How about a used Lenovo yoga sometimes u can see the lower end models used for like 300 ish on ebay / or local in germany 

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