Best bang for the buck laptop

[ClassicNoob]

Whats the best best bang for the buck laptop for my mom who will be using it for pictures, web browsing and skype/zoom/webinar.

[pythonmegapixel]

Whereabouts are you located? (Just the country is OK)

 

Honestly I'd suggest that you just pick up a suitable Chromebook. Viewing pictures and web browsing are absolutely what these things are designed for, and you can run Skype and Zoom easily by installing them from the Play Store, though these versions are based on the Android and not the PC versions. (I think all the functionality is still there though)

 

Don't go ultra-cheap as you'll really sacrifice build quality, but at the same time more than a few hundred dollars is not worth it.

[TukangUsapEmenq]

For anyone that asking question like this, please state the budget so people would have easier time to recommend things if you want more specific answers.

 

But in your mom's use-case, a standard Ryzen 3/i3 laptop would be suffice. Perhaps even an Athlon Gold. She won't need discrete GPU so a system with iGPU would be more than enough. SSD is a must if you wanna have a good long-term usefulness and your mom won't call yourself too much of 'why the laptop lags son?'

 

As @pythonmegapixel said, Chromebook's good but, afaik, kind of limited usability for other than that.

 

And, he's true.

6 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Don't go ultra-cheap as you'll really sacrifice build quality, but at the same time more than a few hundred dollars is not worth it.

 

[ClassicNoob]

Thanks guys!

My mom does a lot of pictures and she constantly fills up her pc to the point that windows can't download and or install updates!  Which is a good and bad thing.

The budget that I'm looking at is about $400.