What are the best cheap windows laptops/notebooks /g/? None of that chromebook or chinese tablet shit. These things are the best for browsing and watching animu in bed, as well as being passively-cooled and capable of basic computing. Plus you can get them in 11inch, 13inch, and 14inchs sizes. So what's your pick /g/? HP Stream? Asus eeebok?
>>54463227
X205TA master race.
>>54463227
Asus UX305
Everything else is too shit. Getting shitty performance AND shitty screen isn't worth the couple bucks you save.
Get a macbook and install Windows. They're the best Windows laptops.
>>54463827
Are you made of money? I know I'm not
>>54463790
You can get a refurb X205TA for like $150. The UX305 costs like 4 times as much. Not cheap enough.
>>54463227
chromebooks are the best for what you said youll be using for
>>54463856
The horrible 1366x768 screen that is pretty small too and the performance would make even browsing a pain.
Used UX305 is probably around 500-600 but actually usable and doesn't make you want to end your life.
>>54463880
>capable of basic computing
I meant a device, that when I want it to do something, I can rely on it being do that something (Eg. run an exe file). Sure 90% of the time it may be used for something a Chromebook can do but there will always be that situation where you want to do something that can't be done on a Chromebook. That's basically what I meant by basic computing. Most programs I will probably want to use will be exclusive to Windows.
>>54463227
Thinking about picking up a ThinkPad X130/140 or something, and changing out the 1366x768 screen for something 1600x900.
My iPad almost replaces the laptop, except for keyboard, mouse, a few or the applications I use, and the soul sucking experience...
>>54463976
>cheap
Sure the Core M devices are really attractive but they are also very expensive (For what they do). Maybe in the future if Core M notebooks become mainstream and cheap.
>>54464131
Isn't 500 considered cheap? There is simply no way sans Core M to get a decent performance on a passively cooled laptop, besides you'd get at least a FullHD screen and a pretty speedy SSD.
Atom on a desktop OS with 2GB of RAM sounds too annoying of an experience, might as well go for a Thinkpad, it should be barely more expensive and pretty quiet for basic tasks.
Or settle for Chromebook.
>>54464201
Some of them have celerons and pentiums.
>>54464239
But they also run a castrated OS that requires lesser resources for itself.
The Asus Eeebook 14" E403 is probably the best you can do before you jump up massively in price to the Core M stuff. It costs about £200 and has a 14" 1366x768 display paired with a quad-core Pentium processor.
