Do You Fa/g/gots Think These are Worth $150?

>11.6 inch 720p screen
>4GB RAM
>64 GB MMC
>plastic
>light as shit
>windows 10 pro

Would you pay $150 for this laptop?

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no i would not buy that. there are many reasons why. if they are not apparent to you then enjoy getting fleeced.

if you just need a throw away device for absolute basic computing, then go for it. I paid $280 for a higher end Chromebook. Entirely down to what you're going to use the PC for.

I'm also interested in something like this, but the 4GB might be an issue with my Linux Mint Cinnamon OS and I can't even imagine running Win 10 on it.

I had one of those. Worst laptop I ever owned.

EFI is locked so you can't install Linux. It's like a Samshit phone, but with double the spyware and candy crush installed.

i would buy it as a device to dick around with
i actually know a guy who buys laptops like this from all over the country, deep wipes them, installs kali, and resells them at a slight markup with no customer records and no questions asked. pretty good burner laptops
sure they are loaded with hardware backdoors but that hardly matters if you dont connect it to your own network, dont put any personal anything on it ever, and ditch it after like a month
he does this with chromebooks especially

>EFI is locked so you can't install Linux. It's like a Samshit phone, but with double the spyware and candy crush installed.
Really?

>EFI is locked
I didn't know that was a thing, I will keep that in mind when shopping, thanks user.

You can buy a used business grade laptop for that money.

>Worst laptop I ever owned

Care to elaborate?

Basically just want a superlight cheap beater laptop to take notes with, browse the internet in my recliner, etc...

Fuck MMC
also EFI only shit

Why don't you enlighten this thread with your technological wisdom, user? No reason to post if you won't.

>windows 10 pro
>pro
Means fucking nothing. The only real difference between windows versions comes with Enterprise, only.

in 2012 sure. now no.

there is almost always a way to unlock it if you have enough autism
pretty much every motherboard manufacturer has its own "stock bios" that you can find and flash
and if it doesn't, or the flashing utility only supports signed images, you can do it the old school retro way
remove the prom chip, read the original image onto another computer, modify it as needed, then write it back onto the chip

i cant honestly recommend buying one of these from the store and using it is it is, but normies dont tend to care about stuff that they should so do whatever

No, wait. They restrict you installing your OS on your device. Fuck those manufacturers, not do shit with soldering iron.

if you only buy devices made by manufacturers that you "support" then you end up building a pattern. a big enough pattern or enough overlapping patterns creates a profile. some people do NOT want a profile.

? I don't get it.

if you dont understand it then your life is cozy and wholesome enough that you dont need to understand it

I would rather get eye cancer with a business laptop

Would rather buy an x220 off of ebay.

That's actually a really good deal. The only thing that would be an issue is the flash storage that's built-in and the OS is installed on - 64GB isn't much and the cheap flash storage these things use is slow as hell.

>Worst laptop I ever owned

What was wrong with it?

Windows 10 runs fine on 4GBs of RAM. The biggest issue is Chrome using too much, so you have to limit how many tabs you're using.

I did this and regretted it. Shitty screen, poor battery life, getting drivers for Windows 10 was a bitch and an over-rated keyboard and nub.

Thinkpads are a meme.

>i struggled with installing windows
>thinkpads are a meme

>Would you pay $150 for this laptop?
The better question is, what would you buy instead?

>Means fucking nothing
It has hyperv and wsl.

This 100%

I have an L100s which is basically the same as this device.
Chucked linux on it with i3wm and it's absolutely perfect for web-browsing, word processing and simple scripting. It has a great battery life.

I don't even need it my ni/g/ger, it'd be just for shit posting and a backup browsing machine.

Does anyone really "need" a pc with an i7 etc? I can see having a bigger HDD but unless you're a GAYmer or edit videos, you can get your shit done on a processor like this.

Forgot pic.
I'll also mention the keyboard is surprisingly nice for such a small form factor.
Whether you buy something like this really depends on what you want out of it, just make sure you do your research and grab one you can mess around with OS's on.

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Remove the windows license with ubuntu or freedos and cut it down to $99.99 flat and it's worth it for me.

I'd reflash it to my own distro obviously.
A windows license key is just a markup to me and useless.

>I buy trash computers I don't want because I don't want the jews to lock on to me

seek help

I laughed hard at this post.

>Some people out there really believe there are teams of Jews stalking every fat NEETs browsing history to make sure he doesn't criticize their banking practices in an Uzbeki carpet stitching forum.

That is why I love this place sometimes

> Implying the screen on a $150 laptop will be better

It's not a cum stained old ass think pad so buy it.

I have one as fallback device. Linux mint works well in it.
I installed linux just fine in them. Efi mode

Laptop is acer swift 1

It’s actually way better than shit low res tn panel

I would pay $750

Yes. It wouldn't even boot a Ubuntu flash drive.

It was just a cheap piece of shit with a horrible screen and keyboard. EFI was locked so it only ran Winshit, no secure or legacy boot options and Winshit 10 ate 25GB out of the 32GB disk. The charger was a proprietary piece of shit that was hard to plug in and charged the battery slower than a snail in molasses. The laptop was completely unusable. I returned it and bought a used ThinkPad.

x220 has ips, you fucking namefag

>poor battery life
my x220 has 6-8hrs
>shitty screen
ips HD screen on 12'5 inch is fine, your bad if you brought one with TN screen
>windows 10
windows works fine on x220
>over-rated keyboard and nub
you are a faggot who never typed on various laptops and you will buy this shitty machine for 150 with shitty build

end your life

>getting drivers for Windows 10 was a bitch
Not the laptop's fault you're retarded
>shitty screen
Literally no worse than the laptop you are shilling
>poor battery life
Not if you get the 9 cell
>over rated keyboard and nub
Your (shitty) opinion

So does my cheap shit acer laptop. Your point being exactly what? Not all x220 computers have ips and most that do have horrible ips display.

These are perfect for normies who just want a brand new IN BOX laptop to do homework or apply for jobs, check emails and basic shit like streaming. netflix, and feisbuc.

For anything other than that its garbage.

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Refurbished or bust.

>not buying Amazon warehouse deals and saving ~40%

Did you need special classes in school?

Yes, anti-standard 32-BIT UEFI (UEFI is only allowed to be 64 BIT, but Apple, Asus, Chuwi and HP just don't give a fuck, appearantly).
Have fun with debian, it is, was and always will be the only distro having support for that.

No Amazon here. Shit place

>i3

Of course

trying this hard to defend your shitpad

I am defending because he is talking shit that is not true.

x220 is much better machine than his shitty asus and things that he is saying is not true.

Thinkpads are cheap, have great keyboard, durable and easy to repair, it looks like it is cool now to shit at thinkpad.

no. buy a thinkpad, faggot OP

>Your point being exactly what

He said that x220 have tn screen and I told him that is incorrect, it has IPS version that is probably much better than this shitty asus laptop on OP's picture.

i'll buy one of those for my mom. that's about it

Retard

Windows 10 runs perfectly fine on 4gb, I have 20 tabs in edge and it runs smooth because edge puts tabs not in use in the hard disk storage and off RAM, though Jow Forums will never acknowledge this advancement

But edge is a botnet

>paying $150 for something that is not a thinkpad when they can be had for the same price

what is your malfunction friend?

You can't seriously be this dumb