best laptop for under $400 these days?
Dear nmglug, We will be giving our summer interns a $400 stipend to get a computer. Last year y'all sent me to the Asus VivoBook Ryzen 3 at this link: https://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-VivoBook-F412-14-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-3-3250U-AMD-R... and it worked out wonderfully for our students. With a year passing, does anyone know if there's another contender in the < $400 space now?
Hi Mark,I had a client of mine purchase the same the laptop. I came to the tend conclusion you did. It even has one removable DIMM slot.So the answer is no. But the screen quality was kinda bad. So I don't know if it's good for long term use.~ Jared -------- Original message --------From: Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> Date: 4/27/22 7:13 PM (GMT-07:00) To: NMGLUG org mailing list <nmglug@nmglug.org> Subject: [nmglug] best laptop for under $400 these days? Dear nmglug,We will be giving our summer interns a $400 stipend to get a computer. Last year y'all sent me to the Asus VivoBook Ryzen 3 at this link:https://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-VivoBook-F412-14-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-3-3250U-AMD-R... it worked out wonderfully for our students.With a year passing, does anyone know if there's another contender in the < $400 space now?_______________________________________________nmglug mailing listnmglug@lists.nmglug.orghttp://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
While back I bought this one from Amazon Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6 inches Full HD IPS Display, AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, Vega 3 Graphics, 4GB DDR4, 128GB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 in S Mode, A515-43-R19L, Silver It was 309.00 and I added 16 but could take 32gig of ram and when I opened it I noticed an open area for a 2.5” ssd. I added a 1tb I had. I have been very happy with Linux on the ssd and windows 11 on the nvme. On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 7:49 PM ABQLUG <community@abqlug.com> wrote:
Hi Mark,
I had a client of mine purchase the same the laptop. I came to the tend conclusion you did. It even has one removable DIMM slot.
So the answer is no. But the screen quality was kinda bad. So I don't know if it's good for long term use.
~ Jared
-------- Original message -------- From: Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> Date: 4/27/22 7:13 PM (GMT-07:00) To: NMGLUG org mailing list <nmglug@nmglug.org> Subject: [nmglug] best laptop for under $400 these days?
Dear nmglug,
We will be giving our summer interns a $400 stipend to get a computer.
Last year y'all sent me to the Asus VivoBook Ryzen 3 at this link:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-VivoBook-F412-14-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-3-3250U-AMD-R...
and it worked out wonderfully for our students.
With a year passing, does anyone know if there's another contender in the < $400 space now? _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug@lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
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