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Cheap Laptop for School

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Hi guys, I will buy a new laptop for school sometime soon.

- As cheap as possible. (not more than around 500$)

- Screen size between 10" and 14".

- Very open; easy disassembly, as many swapable components as possible.

- No OS is completely fine.

- Better if SSD or no drive at all, but HDD is fine.

- Good Linux support is nice.

- Light.

- I prefer Lenovo and ASUS.

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http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-13-7347-laptop/pd?oc=fncww5010h&model_id=inspiron-13-7347-laptop

Dell generally has good support for Ubuntu. Very easy disaessembly.

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the fangbook is good.

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what the bios update in your signature?

that is the Asus mobo BIOS update guide

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that is the Asus mobo BIOS update guide

do you recommend updating cause ive ordered one and yeah.

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do you recommend updating cause ive ordered one and yeah.

which board in particular?

 

why dont you create a new tread?

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which board in particular?

 

why dont you create a new tread?

z97m plus

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Acer is too big, Dell is too expensive (Dell went quite greedy in Europe).

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Acer is too big, Dell is too expensive (Dell went quite greedy in Europe).

Asus may be one option but cost will be a turn off

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Any lenovo/asus

i3 (bigger screen)

i5 (smaller screen)

will do the job and stay in your pricerange.

I recently bought a lenovo laptop for my mom but she only needed it for webbrowsing but even then i spent several hours nitpicking the best for the price for her.

So its a long ass process until u commit to one laptop. Im glad i own a PC and can swap parts. Would take me weeks to buy a laptop fir myself as many in sub 500 dollars are only 1366x768p...

Connection: 200mbps / 12mbps 5Ghz wifi

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Any lenovo/asus

i3 (bigger screen)

i5 (smaller screen)

will do the job and stay in your pricerange.

I recently bought a lenovo laptop for my mom but she only needed it for webbrowsing but even then i spent several hours nitpicking the best for the price for her.

So its a long ass process until u commit to one laptop. Im glad i own a PC and can swap parts. Would take me weeks to buy a laptop fir myself as many in sub 500 dollars are only 1366x768p...

Could you please recommend me some specific model? I don't know about modularity of specific models. 500$ is max budget, but the less in the better.

Some time ago Lenovo Y580 was a very good modular laptop...

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Why limit yourself to Lenovo and Asus? Never close your doors of options.

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Why limit yourself to Lenovo and Asus? Never close your doors of options.

I don't, I just said that I prefer the brands, I'm open for all of them.

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Why limit yourself to Lenovo and Asus? Never close your doors of options.

Because for example laptops from hp and acer have bad reputation in product and customer service quality.

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Because for example laptops from hp and acer have bad reputation in product and customer service quality.

I had acer 5470 once. It truly worked great. But it's keys were starting to get out after 6 years of use.
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Please guys, don´t offtop, I said that I prefer them, it´s not necessary that just those brands.

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