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Cheap Laptops

If you'll go over to the Windows 11 thread, you can read about the security situation with Windows 11.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has a $3,500 Surface laptop that will not be able to run Windows 11. If you bought one, it will be hard to walk away from it. But a cheap laptop is easier to abandon or replace if necessary.

Windows 10 will continue to run fine at least until September 2025 (when MS will drop support). By that time, you will have replaced your cheap laptop anyway.
 
The day of the cheap Windows laptop may be numbered. If you only want to surf the web and maybe play a few simple games, Chromebook gives you a far better choice than a budget Windows laptop.
 
Conflicting reports on the second Preview version of Windows 11 show that it drains laptop battery life about two hours--and it isn't even running the power-eating TPM program.

But other than that, most reports have the 2nd Preview running well on laptops that meet the hardware requirements.
 
They've arrived in Mexico! Cheap laptops with Windows 10 (Of course they can't be upgraded to 11; that's why they're cheap).

Remembering that laptops in Mexico cost double what they cost in the US, I found a $250 laptop with Windows 10 Pro! Of course, its Celeron chip cannot be upgraded to 11.

And for $400 they had a Dell Inspiron with 12 (Count 'em--12!) gigabytes of RAM. Too bad it had a Windows 8 BIOS chip that can't be upgraded to 11.

Many companies have unused parts that have sat on the shelves for years, and many of them are high-quality. Those parts are being slapped together while the budget laptops are hot. But their obsolete architecture can't accept Windows 11.

Should you buy one? Write down the model number, go home, and look it up. Then decide.
 
I recently got an Acer Aspire for about $450 (I don't remember the exact price). I don't know if that's "cheap" cheap, but it's on the lower end of the price range I know
Mostly just use it for web browsing + low level gaming (it can run Minecraft with no issues)
 
MS plans to release a budget laptop in early 2022. It will run Windows SE, which is designed for school use. It includes a program that allows the teacher some control over all the computers in a class (that are running 11SE).

At $250US, this Celeron-chip laptop will be adequate for school use and might give Chromebooks a real challenge for the budget laptop market.
 
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