I’m guessing they lowered the price between me adding it to my watchlist and me seeing the offer, but it still made me chuckle

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    In the US, quick look for bad deals on amazon and I found 8GB ram, 256GB storage i3-1115G4 for $373 new. Should be about the same or a little worse than this one. But above that in the listings is essentially the same machine for $280.

    Looking for good deals, I found a ‘renewed’ 16GB RAM, 512GB storage i5-1245U on Amazon for $260, or same specs used on Ebay for $200. Has a pretty decent iGPU as well, for the time. New was $400 or greater though even on the 8/256GB machines with that CPU. For something that isn’t a laptop, used BC-250s in the US are at about $160, still a great deal even though back in November they were about $95.

    I’d say in the US there’s no reason to get a low end laptop new, the pricing gets much more sane in the midrange usually. And also that you can find some pretty terrible hardware still being sold as new on Amazon. But there are good deals here, even if they take a bit of looking sometimes. Which may be different from the country you’re in, idk. sorry for the ramble, I just enjoy looking for good value hardware lol

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      New low end laptops haven’t really made sense for about 10 years. When a nicely mid range but 2-3 year old business pc is the same price as a new one low end one and all you need to do is be tech savvy enough to reload the OS. Or pay a $100-200 premium to have the manufacturer do that for you.