Hey /g/. My girlfriend broke her laptop and is a broke ass college student but needs a laptop for classwork. It needs to run .exe programs, so no meme chromebooks. Would this be the best possible laptop for sub $200?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834319464&Tpk=N82E16834319464
>2.5 GHz i5 2nd gen
>4 GB DDR3
>320 GB HD
>Win764
>Only integrated gfx (nbd)
>5lbs
>$180
I would be looking at upgrading RAM to 8 gigs and putting a small SSD in it for the OS. She can however use it as is until those components are on sale.
Can you do any better?
Pick up a second hand Thinkpad.
>>61322405
Hope you are not paying for it or being her 24/7 technical support for free, otherwise you are a cuck
>>61322405
/g/ is not your personal tech support forum, newfag
>>61322430
No I'm not paying for it, just helping her find one because I enjoy the back and fourth of looking at computer specs enough to be bothered.
>>61322455
>I enjoy the back and fourth of looking at computer specs
sounds quite autistic, but you are a normie
>>61322430
this
>my girlfriend
Stopped right there.
>>61322488
tfw actually fucking quoted my own post and said "this" >>61322452 i meant this
>>61322452
>>61322452
What's going to happen?
A. Get no replies
B. Get banned from a board I rarely use
C. Get yelled at by REEEEs
Doesn't matter to me.
don't.
just get her a new laptop with an intel celeron cpu. i did and it went well for the time when we were together.
she will hate the thinkpad.
>>61322612
The clock speed is like half on the celeron though. Why would that be better? What do I not know about celeron I always thought celeron was bad.
>>61322727
well if it is too bad to run powerpoint, word and chrome with 3 tabs and maybe skype at the same time, don't buy it.
t420 with ssd and 8gig on might be actually a decent idea if its motherboard/fan are alright.
Not your personal tech support, fuck off.
>>61322900
Ban me fggt
>>61322405
Not sure why all of this technical support bullshit is being spouted, because if it was about say, GPU's, and a girlfriend wasn't mentioned, there would be 300+ replies over Nvidiafags and AMDfags.
At any rate, you're probably not going to find a better computer (specs, and build quality wise) for that amount of money, and a T420 is /g/ approved. However consider looking at X220's, as they have similar specs, but are much more portable.