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From surprisingly good $300 Chromebooks to excellent $650 Windows notebooks and more, these are the best budget laptops I’ve tested. +++lead-in-text
Computers have put people on the moon. You'd think that given the miraculous technological utopia of our age, we’d also be able to get decently cheap laptops. For so long, that felt like a hopeless case. More recently, many budget laptops have become quite good. Chromebooks are more modern, and budget Windows laptops now offer strong battery life. There’s even a MacBook affordable enough to earn the “cheap” designation. If your budget for a computer is tight, I have you covered with my recommendations for the best affordable laptops.
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