What’s the best affordable laptop? No macs please, would like to keep it to under $900.

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A used mac

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prob lenovo thinkpad. $900 isn’t a lot though.

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MacBook Air is on sale for $900 on amazon

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Surface pro 8 with an i5 and 256g storage would come for 800-850. Packs a punch.

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Pros - Full fledged PC in the semi-tablet form factor. Still very very portable, especially as a 2nd computer in your bag. Great display & camera. Gets the odd job done.

Cons - Might not be as lappable as conventional laptop. Keyboard though really good, takes some getting used to. You might have to carry a dongle if you connect to displays/use too many ports.

I would recommend the 8 simply because you have flexibility with the ports and can charge via usb-c. Also 10th Gen i5 would be equivalent to 8th Gen i7.

Sorry it has to be a Mac

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Microsoft surface laptop

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Yea I don’t see why not! Especially since it’s cheaper

What would you be using it for? Would a Chromebook or similar cut it?

Would like to have the same capabilities and capacity as my work laptop. I would be using it to do the same type of stuff.

You can get a slightly old refurbished thinkpad that performs really well for ~$300

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I’d probably have to say a Mac.

T490 Lenovo, home laptops are not designed to be rugged like businesses laptops

Dell Inspiron, I got mine from the MS Signature store (now defunct) in 2016 and it think if the hardware holds up (i have dropped it a few times) I will be able to use it for at least 3 more years. I do a lot of python, c, and java coding on it. I am not into video games so that was never a factor for me

Thoughts on purchasing refurbished laptops?

No. I had bad experience

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