A Laptop for less than $325 (Not Refurbished)

So you want a POS?

Try Best Buy Open Box Deals:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17301&type=page

I've seen decent enough machines at my local store.

Or look here:

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/laptop/

 

If you are just needing to get on the internet, a Chromebook is a great option for you.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6880/best-budget-laptops-april-2013

Honorable Mention: Lenovo G570, $330 (i3-2370M)



Another really inexpensive laptop to consider is the Lenovo G570, currently selling for a mere $330 at OfficeMax. You get a Sandy Bridge i3-2370M CPU, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, and around 5 hours of battery life. Performance should still be reasonable compared to Ivy Bridge, though the HD 3000 graphics are a big step down from HD 4000 so even light gaming is almost too much to expect.

There are plenty of other laptops in the $300 range with AMD’s C-series and E-series APUs (not to mention the dog that is Intel Atom), but while battery life might be good, just about everything else is too slow for me to personally recommend such a laptop. Then again, people are okay with tablets that offer even less performance in many cases, so consider your own wants and shop accordingly. In the meantime, if you have a favorite budget laptop that you feel we’ve neglected, by all means let us know in the comments, and as noted in above, let me know what category of laptops you’d like me to analyze next Friday.

Office Max is out but found one here:
http://www.rakuten.com/prod/lenovo-...-500gb-hdd/231279452.html?listingId=280953375

 

Toshiba has some pretty nice laptops in that price range.

 

Why do people have a problem with refurbished? I prefer it over new and used. More reliable, better priced.

 

Wow good find. An i3 for that much. That is a great deal. Cheap and better than a netbook

 

I've bought i5s for 200 bucks used. Too bad refurbs get a bad name. Return policy should be enforced.

That said, i3s for 300 are good deals.

 

http://www.cedarpc.com/store_cedarp...zeQ8EFb3ocWTLYwl8Zk8Y92T8BrQqpX_iVq2DxAbdwUj0,


You're missing out on some great grade A refurb deals.

 

Same here. My first mp3 player was refurbished, and it still works fine after 9 years. I have no worries about buying refurbished electronics.

If something is refurbished, that means a problem was missed during the first inspection, then that problem was fixed and the system was inspected again.

Hell, they're all designed to be temporary anyway.

 

check microcenter, they usually have some cheap laptops

 

LOL if you are going to ignore the recommendation of a Lenovo because you "read bad reviews" then that means you are doing your own damn research and already decided that you are going to get what YOU want to get regardless of what anyone else tells you...... Go, get that Fujitsu Lifebook....Fits you perfectly....

 

Check out slickdeals or fatwallet. /thread

 

So why wouldn't a Samsung Chromebook be a good option for you?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE303...6-Inch/dp/B009LL9VDG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

 

I bought a Chromebook. It's pretty awesome.