A used corporate surplus laptop would be far better.
Absolutely, a 3 years old Dell that was $2000 can be had for like $300 sometimes on eBay
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s a barebones one (hence the “Essential”), if your Toshiba laptop was a good spec, that one might honestly be better, if it was slow then this might be an upgrade. All depends on what you need out of a laptop.
Screen is 1366x768 so it will be hard to do much multitasking at all and you can’t view 1080p HD video at full resolution.
For the price in USD? I think it’s not good value. A used corporate surplus laptop would be far better. ~$200 would be a good value price for this spec.
Magister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Example from Amazon - a ChromeOS laptop
Example from OfficeDepot - a Windows “AI-enabled” laptop
Anyway if you go with any hp I recommend you cut out all the useless crapware that comes with it.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is a good opportunity to shamelessly plug refurb.io - I’ve bought machines for my family there. If you can stand the occasional appearance blemish it’s a very reliable site.