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Out of curiosity I decided to look at cheap laptops in my country. One of them is $240 Irbis NB77 laptop with IPS display, 2Gb of RAM (soldered as I understood)

Out of curiosity I decided to look at cheap laptops in my country. One of them is $240 Irbis NB77 laptop with IPS display, 2Gb of RAM (soldered as I understood), 4-core Atom Z3735F CPU, only 2 USB ports, 32 Gb of eMMC and, the worst of all, Windows 10, which probably will take all of the space on a drive. But of course there are cheaper laptops with 4Gb RAM, so this one seems more like an exception. There are even tablets that cost less and have 12 Gb of RAM, although they are sold by suspicious sellers from China.

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> Atom Z3735F That's Bay Trail Atom. Launch date: Q1'14, two years after the platform launch, two years before the platform sees the latest release. Or this is old new stock (of Bay Trail Atoms?) of something completely insane. Come on, 8 years! I had Acer W4-821 tablet with similar CPU in 2014! And was quite hampered by an upgrade to Win10, though I managed to run Virtual Box with CentOS on it to live test some code. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80274/intel-atom-processor-z3735f-2m-cache-up-to-1-83-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80274/i...
black3r 4y ago
for 245€ I can get a refurbished Lenovo T470 with FullHD display, i5 7300U, 256GB SSD, and 8GB DDR4 RAM (and a Windows 10 Pro licence)... There's absolutely no point in buying new cheap laptops these days.., Big businesses are always getting rid of 5 year old laptops because their 5-year warranty expired, and the prices get low because they're old, but those 5 year old laptops are comparable to 1 year old laptops these days, cause in 2017-2021 there has been 0 improvements in the laptop world... I wanted to replace my top of the line 2017 Dell XPS 9560 in 2021 after 4 years of use and literally didn't find any laptop that was noticeably better to justify paying for it....

justsomehnguy 4y ago

> Atom Z3735F That's Bay Trail Atom. Launch date: Q1'14, two years after the platform launch, two years before the platform sees the latest release. Or this is old new stock (of Bay Trail Atoms?) of something completely insane. Come on, 8 years! I had Acer W4-821 tablet with similar CPU in 2014! And was quite hampered by an upgrade to Win10, though I managed to run Virtual Box with CentOS on it to live test some code. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80274/intel-atom-processor-z3735f-2m-cache-up-to-1-83-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/80274/i...

black3r 4y ago

for 245€ I can get a refurbished Lenovo T470 with FullHD display, i5 7300U, 256GB SSD, and 8GB DDR4 RAM (and a Windows 10 Pro licence)... There's absolutely no point in buying new cheap laptops these days.., Big businesses are always getting rid of 5 year old laptops because their 5-year warranty expired, and the prices get low because they're old, but those 5 year old laptops are comparable to 1 year old laptops these days, cause in 2017-2021 there has been 0 improvements in the laptop world... I wanted to replace my top of the line 2017 Dell XPS 9560 in 2021 after 4 years of use and literally didn't find any laptop that was noticeably better to justify paying for it....