(Price is in € EUR)
For context, six months ago I bought a renewed Thinkpad X395 for exactly this price and I got: An actually decent CPU and not something as powerful as a Wii, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of actual M.2 SSD, a really nice 1080p Touchscreen, really nice build quality with metal and a nice backlit keyboard. Heck, even when I bought a cheap laptop in May 2020 it was much better than this and it even was brand new for the same price.
I know this CPU very well, for this price you are getting something that has trouble playing a Youtube video in 1080p at 60 FPS and can’t even run the latest version of Minecraft at above 10 FPS. Now imagine this combined with Windows 11 and only 4 GB of RAM…
No, this is not because of the current hardware crysis, this is pure greed. But hey, 1 year of Microslop 365 is included!
Yeah Intel Celeron+4gb ram is a total slogfest on Windows, Linux makes it a bit more bearable.
If they are made to be as cheap as possible, why don’t they just drop the Windows license and preload them with Linux Mint or something?
Because then 97% of the public wouldn’t buy it.
In 2020 I had a laptop with that same Celeron N4000 but with 8GB of RAM and an M.2 SSD. It wasn’t that bad on Linux, maybe this was best case scenario, but still doing anything took forever