Recommendation for <$500 Laptop

[UVERtainment]

Budget of $500 for a BNIB laptop

Mainly for study purpose and mild surfing.

If possible, mayb at least a 128gb ssd storage.

Been looking but mostly all comes in 64gb or lower

 

[multijesture]

Must be windows or can chromebook?

 

[bugis78]

buy a 2nd hand....$200 to $300.

 

[Kennedy]

Chuwi HeroBook Pro N4000 8GB Ram 256GB SSD from $4XX. I bought it last year. not bad. good enough for basic needs. can play Youtube 4K videos and HEVC H.265 videos full screen smoothly. search Lazada.

 

[mrwirus]

Chuwi HeroBook Pro N4000 8GB Ram 256GB SSD from $4XX. I bought it last year. not bad. good enough for basic needs. can play Youtube 4K videos and HEVC H.265 videos full screen smoothly. search Lazada.

Have you tried multiple tabs for web surfing? My wife is looking for a laptop which she can watch youtube/dramas online as well as browse the web. She will normally open 6-8 tabs so is that possible or it will slow down to a crawl?

 

[watzup_ken]

Have you tried multiple tabs for web surfing? My wife is looking for a laptop which she can watch youtube/dramas online as well as browse the web. She will normally open 6-8 tabs so is that possible or it will slow down to a crawl?

The N4000 should handle fine, if there is enough RAM. You should have no less than 8GB if you are intending to multitask or open a lot of tabs in Chrome. Otherwise, there should be cheap laptops based on the older Ryzen 2xxx or 3xxx series which is a lot faster, but again, you need sufficient RAM. 4GB won't cut it nowadays.

 

[86technie]

Suggest look at second hand laptop like from laptop factory outlet at Bugis.
Specs like Intel i5, 8GB and SSD to run Windows 10.

https://laptopfactoryoutlet.com.sg/product-category/laptops/used-refurbished-secondhand-laptops/

 

[Kennedy]

Have you tried multiple tabs for web surfing? My wife is looking for a laptop which she can watch youtube/dramas online as well as browse the web. She will normally open 6-8 tabs so is that possible or it will slow down to a crawl?

5-6 tabs should be ok, no bad lagging. the FHD screen looks good. overall the laptop is not fast but it doesn't feel slow too. it is decent enough considering the price. it uses mini HDMI to HDMI for display output. it is a fanless and silent laptop.