# Help Me Pick a Cheapo Laptop!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-cheapo-laptop/686611>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-cheapo-laptop/686611 "2014-04-21T15:07:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-cheapo-laptop/686611/21 "2014-04-21T20:51:24Z")

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Integrated graphics is fine as long as you have over 4gig RAM. I’m running Entropia universe on mine, integrated graphics, 2.2 ghz, dual core, no problems.

The way I see it, I spent a lot on extras, but those extras will probably end up in a new computer in the future.

Oh, btw, one thing missing on cheapo laptops is hdmi. It’s huge if you want to use a secondary monitor with sound.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-cheapo-laptop/686611/22 "2014-04-22T02:28:52Z")

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So, I ended up with [this](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQGYHYK/ref=ox_ya_os_product_refresh_T1) [Toshiba](http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/L70/L75D-A7283). For some reason it never popped up no matter how much I played with Amazon’s search settings, but I found it listed in [this article](https://www.laptopninja.org/finding-the-best-gaming-laptops-under-500-dollars/) and was able to find it by searching directly for the model number. Considering the screen size it was too good to pass up. Thanks for the advice, everyone!

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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-cheapo-laptop/686611/23 "2014-04-22T02:54:28Z")

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Wow that was expensive for the L70 series. I got mine about 5 years ago on sale at Office Depot for $400.

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