[Amazon] List of budget back-to-school laptops

[Djole123]

So, school is coming, your laptop is dying and you can't afford an expensive one? Well, you came to the right place. This is a small list of laptops that are good and won't break your wallet.

 

 

1) Acer SW3-013-146A (145$)

 

This is a 10" hybrid laptop. It has all the benefits of a laptop+a touchscreen. It has an Intel Atom, 2GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD. It's a pretty low speced machine for most basic tasks like web browsing and emailing.

 

2) Lenovo ThinkPad 11e (250$)

 

This is a small AMD based laptop equipped with the dual core A4, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB mechanical hard drive. While it isn't the best specced laptop, it's compact and it can do general use things darn well. 

 

3) Dell Latitude 3440 14" (288$)

 

This puppy is a tad more on the mid range side. It has a 900p 14" screen, a Core i3 processor and a DVD drive. But, sacrifises had to be made, it only has 2GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.

 

4) Lenovo G50 (310$)

 

With this laptop you're getting, in my opinion, the most value for the money. It's rocking a quad core A8, 500G HDD and a 15.6" 720p screen. While I would like a 1080p one, this one is good enough and should satisfy most users.

[deWaardt]

The only thing I hate about cheap laptops, is that they usually put quite a decent CPU in, enough RAM to make the thing able to do more than 2 tabs in chrome, enough battery life to make it through the day, but then they slam in the worst and cheapest 12xx/13xx*7xx screen possible, with poor colors, low brightness, shitty viewing angles and poor contrast, and make it 15.6" so it's blurry as fuck as well, completely ruining the laptop.

[TopWargamer]

Best Buy has a good deal going on right now. It's a $350 Acer with an i5, 4GB of RAM, and 1TB of HDD space.

[EarthboundHero]

My girlfriend just got a Toshiba Z40-A for $275 after tax from Pawn 1. i5-4300U, 8GB RAM (Has an extra slot too) and a 256GB SSD. It was a $1200+ laptop 2 years ago. It runs great, the only problem is it's Windows 8.1 and it's too late to get the free upgrade to 10. My point is, if you're on a budget, check pawn shops and the used market.