3 ms·
I see the same almost everywhere, on HP's site (https://store.hp.com/us/en/vwa/laptops/form=Standard-laptop https://store.hp.com/us/en/vwa/laptops/form=Standard
by flukus 7y ago
I see the same almost everywhere, on HP's site (https://store.hp.com/us/en/vwa/laptops/form=Standard-laptop https://store.hp.com/us/en/vwa/laptops/form=Standard-laptop) they have some cheap laptops with 1TB HDD's but even now the cheapest with 512GB SSD's start at 3 times the price.
Upgrading myself is probably the best option, but there's a minefields of things I'm not confident with when it comes to mobile hardware.
IME running linux, especially a lightweight distro, makes more of a performance difference than an SSD anyway, at least with my usage.
Edit -also at $170 it would just about be doubling the price of an otherwise acceptable laptop, so hardly a huge win.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThe price gouging for larger drives is common all over. The inability to do it yourself is rare. There's very little that can go wrong when cloning a 2TB or less drive and it requires $10 of extra hardware. If you're happy with installing your OS from scratch, like you would when switching to linux, then there is basically zero reason to hesitate on putting in a new drive. Drive bays are designed for easy access.