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Review: 2020 HP 15.6″ Touchscreen Laptop Computer

Posted on July 30, 2020

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In times past, the typical budget and mid-range laptops came stuffed with cheap, inferior components that made for a frustratingly slow and inefficient computing experience. But times have changed.

Nowadays even many mid-range laptops offer plenty of speed and power at affordable prices.

I recently had the opportunity to check out a very affordable mid-range laptop from HP, and overall I believe it’s a great machine for the money.

The 2020 HP 15.6″ Touchscreen Laptop Computer is an attractive, sleek looking laptop that has everything the typical user will need in order to surf the Internet, peruse Facebook and Twitter, watch videos on Youtube, send and receive email, use Microsoft Office and edit photos and videos with Photoshop and other hardware-intensive apps. [Read more…]

Review: HP 14-inch Full HD Stream Laptop

Posted on July 2, 2020

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HP has always made great budget laptops, and their latest offerings are some of the best yet.

The prices of laptops with solid state storage have dropped so much that I now have difficulty recommending any PC that doesn’t have a solid state boot drive.

I recently had the opportunity to check out a new budget laptop from HP that’s just as affordable as a ChromeBook, yet has blazing fast solid state storage and runs Windows 10!

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Review: Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop

Posted on November 2, 2014

Modern laptops are becoming more powerful all the time. More RAM and hard drive space along with faster CPUs make many of them true desktop replacement PCs, and there seems to be no end to the enhancements in sight.

But not everyone needs the fastest, most powerful laptop on the block. If you just need a laptop that does a good job at surfing the Internet, checking email, watching Youtube videos and making simple edits to photos, a good budget model should serve you quite well.

The Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK (#ad) is a 15.6 inch laptop that will do everything mentioned above, and more. While it won’t be setting any speed records, it’s plenty fast enough and powerful enough to do what the average Internet user needs for a budget laptop to do. [Read more…]