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Re:Ask HN: Best Budget Windows Laptop? by ToFab123 on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:00AM (#21862604)
I would say basically any cheap laptop where the hard drive is user replaceable so you can replace the spinning disk with a SSD. Doing that a cheap windows laptop becomes almost as fast as higher-end models. That 5400 rpm hard drive they put in cheap laptops are really the thing that makes them super slow.
Re:Ask HN: Best Budget Windows Laptop? by m-p-3 on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:08PM (#21867908)
Make sure to consider the screen resolution. Most cheap laptops comes with a 1366x768 display resolution, which can severely limit the usable workspace.