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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by Fnoord on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:14PM (#17892820)
Good bang for the buck but I want at least 8 GB DDR4 in a new laptop (bought in 2018), and preferably also TB3 and an AMD GPU.

Regardless of the other unnecessary or lacking features Macbook laptops have (butterfly keyboard, touchbar, magsafe, USB-A ports come to mind) if you want a decent amount of RAM and an AMD GPU you pay the jackpot price on MBPs.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by nl on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:05AM (#17895835)
https://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_651697.html

12.5”, 8gb, full Intel. I haven’t tried it but it looks interesting and well priced.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by Fnoord on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:52AM (#17895950)
DDR3. Does have 2.4 GHz + 5 GHz WLAN which is another minimum requirement. Anyway, though I haven't used it this seems like a nice machine with good bang for the buck. Except when it comes to warranty.
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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by nextos on Saturday September 01, 2018 @03:28PM (#17893517)
i5 has 8 GB of RAM and still an Intel HD card. Sadly, it's not fanless. Same as with MS Surface and virtually all fanless m3 setups, there's no 8 GB option.
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