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📣 _bxg1

Best Budget Windows Laptop?


My dad needs a new laptop:

- He has Windows-only software he wants to run, so no chromebooks

- In general he prefers a bigger screen if possible

- He doesn't need very powerful specs

- He doesn't care for a touch screen or anything

- Beyond the above, low price, high durability, and maybe battery life would be the priorities

Any recommendations?

  👤 mister_hn Accepted Answer ✓
The HP 250 G7 is the best one. You can buy it for 400€ and it supports up to 32 GB RAM (warning: you need to pick up the Ryzen variant)
👤 ToFab123
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.
👤 llampx
A refurb Thinkpad T5xx or E5xx from the Lenovo outlet should fit the bill.
👤 gaspoweredcat
does it need to be brand new? if not consider a refurbished thinkpad, a T4xx or T5xx should do nicely depending on which screen size you want