{"id":14035,"date":"2023-04-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/whats-it-like-to-use-a-300-windows-laptop-for-a-day\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T13:00:00","slug":"whats-it-like-to-use-a-300-windows-laptop-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/whats-it-like-to-use-a-300-windows-laptop-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s it like to use a $300 Windows laptop for a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The year is 2023, and my tireless quest to find a Windows laptop under $500 that isn\u2019t a flaming pile of trash continues. While I\u2019ve long maintained that people constrained to that category should just get Chromebooks<\/a>, I understand that this recommendation makes quite a few people very, very angry. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So I\u2019m coming to you today from the HP 14, a 14-inch silver laptop that we purchased from Amazon for $289<\/a>. It has an 11th Gen Core i3 processor (yes, it\u2019s an older chip, but that\u2019s why it\u2019s so cheap \u2014 such is life), 4GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. This is just about as cheap as a Windows laptop can get. (HP\u2019s listed MSRP for this model is $469.99, but you can get it for far less without much effort.) And to see if it\u2019s a viable budget purchase, I spent a full workday on the device, morning to night. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spoiler alert: it wasn\u2019t terrible? I mean, it wasn\u2019t great. But I was surprised by how well it went.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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