Looking to lock down a holiday gift next week, feedback appreciated!
Best laptop under $500?
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What are you going to be using the laptop for? Basic computing, gaming, video?
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The best laptops under $500 in 2025: our top budget picks
These are the best laptops we've reviewed that you can buy for $500 or less
^^agreed. All depends on what you’re going to use it for.
Now there ain't going to be no Apple laptop under $500....unless it is broken.
You cheap muthafucka!
If they only using it to browse the web, play Spotify, and type documents....no need to spend more
Hmmm
if you can I would try to hang in there till after new years....
you can wait after new years or if you can hold off a few weeks and catch that president day sale...
I just be surfin the web, printing shit out and watchin movies and listing to music..
so I just got a gamer laptop... got the asus rog...
couldnt be happier.... videos play crisp like a muthafucka..
What are you going to be using the laptop for? Basic computing, gaming, video?
The best laptops under $500 in 2025: our top budget picks
These are the best laptops we've reviewed that you can buy for $500 or less
It's for a cousin going to college, so basic computing, web searching, video.
This is for one of my favorite relatives, you should see what I have in mind for others! Wondering how a $20 gift certificate to Red Lobster is perceived as opposed to Burger King-- the latter is less prestigious a brand but more trips could be covered.
Yeah, I hear you but I'm not so cheap as to give an IOU for Jesus's birthday so it is what it is as far as missing deals.
I'm not even a Christian; they're lucky I'm participating in this fraudulent pagan commercial charade at all.
You definitely get what you pay for, but if that is all then that link provided should be good for comparisons.
oh.. I thought it was for you..... but damn a laptop, sheet.... I just give the nieces and nephews a lil amazon gift card...
a laptop, sheeeet they better be workin on a full scholarship or someshit...
wastin my money and lil knigga searchin for big booty bitches fightin over food and shit
Acer Aspire 5 is prob one of the better all-around, non-gaming laptops for the money. The Aspire 5's with AMD processors are a good bit cheaper than the Intel ones but tend to get slightly worse battery life.
If it needs to be more portable (14" screen or smaller), this Lenovo looks solid
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Maintain productivity while staying flexible with this Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14 convertible laptop. The Full HD touchscreen display lets you sketch and annotate with a compatible digital pen while the AMD Ryzen 5 processor and 8GB of RAM allow smooth media streaming and application access. This...
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This and make sure it's touchscreen. Surprisingly, there's non-touch Chromebooks that Google has certified to run Android apps
if you're willing to pay a little over $500
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HP Pavilion x360 2 In 1 Laptop - Office Depot
Take work and play to the next level with this 2 in 1 laptop. You can touch tap and glide through the intuitive interface and enjoy versatile typing and viewing positions thanks to the 360 hinge that helps make everyday tasks that much easier. With wireless options on your side its easy to...
under $500
Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Laptop 15.6 Screen Intel Core i5 8265U 8GB Memory 1TB Hard Drive Windows 10 Home - Office Depot
Power your creativity with this Lenovo IdeaPad laptop. The Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM let you work with multiple applications simultaneously while the 1TB HDD accommodates large media files and work documents. This Lenovo IdeaPad laptop has Intel UHD 620 integrated graphics for...
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Lenovo Flex Laptop 14 Full HD Touch Screen AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 8GB Memory 256GB Solid State Drive Windows 10 Home - Office Depot
Maintain productivity while staying flexible with this Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14 convertible laptop. The Full HD touchscreen display lets you sketch and annotate with a compatible digital pen while the AMD Ryzen 5 processor and 8GB of RAM allow smooth media streaming and application access. This...
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a laptop under 5 hun is only good
for surfing and typing up documents
and other low resource using tasks.
for surfing and typing up documents
and other low resource using tasks.
The empty space in my left chest region agrees with you but my head says rewarding one of the young ones for making it to college will provide some incentive to the younger ones.
$750 now!
I'm tracking pre-holiday, holiday and post-holiday tends to inform my process for next year.
This mindset will have you buying $500 laptops for $750 and feeling smug about it.a laptop under 5 hun is only good
for surfing and typing up documents
and other low resource using tasks.
No... this mindset will hopefully get
one to think about what you'll need
this piece of equipment for and how
it will work out for you.
I do work that requires a good sound card
and great video card and I need a processor
and enough ram to power me thru work and
demanding applications.
...so again, it will depend on what you need
it for but hey... do what you gotta do son.
Here is my 2 cents based on my experience when searching for sub $500 laptops. Remember everyones experience is different, so hopefully we will hear from others:
- Stay away from core i3 processors, go for i5 processors. Unless you have a family member you despise and red lobster is too good for them. This will make sure everything they do is extremely slow. My daily laptop is a 2015 MacBook Pro with i5 5000 series chip and 8GB Ram. I use it to play games, surf, run virtualBox and watch movies without issues. I tried an i3 before and never again will I buy something with that processor. When I need to program, I jump on the Dell XPS i7-7000(quad core) series with 16GB Ram.
- The i5 8000 and up series chips are quad core + battery efficient. The i5 7000 and below are dual core.
- If you are gifting someone a laptop and they currently do not own a laptop/desktop, there is a good chance they are not jumping in deep enough where they will require a powerful system for Video Editing, Sound Processing, Android Programming, or gaming. When they get to they point, hopefully they will have done enough work for money to purchase something more powerful.
- I haven't worked with Ryzen Chips but it looks like 5, 7, and 9 are the best choices. Stay away from the 3's, AMD and Intel.
- Stay away from core i3 processors, go for i5 processors. Unless you have a family member you despise and red lobster is too good for them. This will make sure everything they do is extremely slow. My daily laptop is a 2015 MacBook Pro with i5 5000 series chip and 8GB Ram. I use it to play games, surf, run virtualBox and watch movies without issues. I tried an i3 before and never again will I buy something with that processor. When I need to program, I jump on the Dell XPS i7-7000(quad core) series with 16GB Ram.
- The i5 8000 and up series chips are quad core + battery efficient. The i5 7000 and below are dual core.
- If you are gifting someone a laptop and they currently do not own a laptop/desktop, there is a good chance they are not jumping in deep enough where they will require a powerful system for Video Editing, Sound Processing, Android Programming, or gaming. When they get to they point, hopefully they will have done enough work for money to purchase something more powerful.
- I haven't worked with Ryzen Chips but it looks like 5, 7, and 9 are the best choices. Stay away from the 3's, AMD and Intel.
2012 MacBook Pro, you can upgrade the fuck outta that mafaka
Computer A
1366 x 768 resolution
512 GB memory
Hard Disk Size 512 GB
Processor (CPU) Speed 3.6 GHz
Display Size 15 in
Computer B
1920x1080 resolution
256 GB memory
Hard Disk Size 256 GB
Processor (CPU) Speed 8 GHz
Display Size 15.6 in
Is computer B worth $130 more than computer A for the better processing speed, resolution and slightly bigger screen? Or is computer A better with twice the memory and and twice the hard disk size?
So basically-- Is Computer B better? (I'm not even sure if it is clearly better with those differences.) If it is, is it $130 worth of better? ($485 vs $620.)
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