I can’t agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste
Zron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sub 500 dollar laptops are low budget for new hardware.
Attacker94@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you can find a mid range in that price range your living in bullshit land of nonsense and rainbow unicorn farts.
The ai bubble has ass fucked laptop pricing.
Even the second hand market is fucked.
Most 500-700 dollar laptops are the ewaste crap now. Anything below that price point is out of date Chromebooks at best.
Attacker94@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They start at $730 where I live, there are way better alternatives for less.