The best laptop under $500 right now — Save $450 on HP OmniBook with an Intel Core 5 315 CPU and Wi-Fi 7
The HP OmniBook 3 is the fastest - and I think the best - laptop you can buy under $500 right now in the US.
You can buy it direct from HP for as little as $449.99, a saving of 50% (or $450) off its SRP of $900. But I believe that the $10 Wi-Fi 7 upgrade (and Bluetooth 6.0) is a no-brainer.
The star of the show is the Intel Core 5 315 CPU. This processor that powers the Omnibook 3 is surprisingly fast according to our go to test site, CPUBenchmark. With a single thread rating of almost 4,000 marks and a multithreaded rating of more than 15,300, it is way faster than the Neo (as a reminder, Apple’s cheapest laptop, costs $699, a staggering 55% more expensive).
The Core 5 315 has a neural processing unit (NPU) that offers up to 15 TOPS, ideal for...
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