Is a new $199 HP Walmart-exclusive laptop any good? No, but a free 1-year subscription to Microsoft 365 worth $70 instantly makes world’s cheapest Windows laptop more attractive
We live in very weird times, where AI suddenly sent consumer tech back at least a decade. Here I am casting my gaze on a laptop that wouldn’t have been out of place in 2016.
This HP laptop is a Walmart exclusive, has no name and costs only $199, down from $259. It is the cheapest new Windows laptop in the US (and possibly in the whole world, I looked almost everywhere).
What you get for your hard earned money is a reasonably fast laptop CPU. The Intel N150 is roughly equivalent to some 10th generation Core i3 CPU, which is to say that it is not bad at all. It is superior to the absolute travesty that is the Athlon Silver 10 which powers (for lack of a better word) so many budget laptops.
Corners have been cut to reach the sticker price. There’s only 4GB of RAM...
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