(Price is in € EUR)

For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.

I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can't even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM...

No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

Don't buy consumer laptops, especially not ones that are this cheap. Buy used business laptops; Dell Latitude, Lenovo ThinkPad, even used HP EliteBooks are better value than most stuff you get under 1000€ new.

Even a dual-core Haswell CPU is gonna be better than a Celeron. Plus you'll be able to upgrade storage and RAM.

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