[Hardware] Good, beautiful laptops for less than 600 Euros

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It is not necessary to spend a fortune on a good laptop to work, study or surf, there are cheap solutions. We've been looking for solutions that are powerful, affordable, and work with Windows. We have found three very interesting laptops which have up to 33% discount.

The first of the options that we bring you is quite striking and is out of what we could call common. The first aspect in which this laptop stands out is that it has a Qualcomm processor, similar to that of a smartphone. This allows us to create a compact and lightweight system that we can transport comfortably. We can get this Samsung Galaxy Book GO for 369 euros, which represents a saving of 17%.

The processor stands out above all in this laptop, leaving aside Intel and AMD, the main manufacturers of chips for laptops. It makes use of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen2 processor, which is manufactured by Samsung. This processor has 8 Kryo 490 cores working at a frequency of 2.55 GHz. This processor is accompanied by a discrete Qualcomm Adreno 618 graphics card, enough to offer an image.

This laptop integrates 4 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, which is little. Really less than 8 GB today is an understatement, but hey, for work, surfing and studying, it may be fine. The storage is not the brightest either, with 128 GB of eMMC memory, which is also very tight. There are two points where it is weak.

We are talking about a simple 14-inch screen laptop with 1080p resolution, without more. It offers us WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity, which is not bad. Regarding the rest of the connectivity, it has a USB-C, a USB-A 2.0, a micro SD card reader and a headphone jack.

It can be a good solution to work remotely if we are going to use Office or similar tools. It can even be a good gift for kids who are studying ESO or Baccalaureate. Sure, it costs very little money, we can't demand much for the price either.

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 1
As an alternative, somewhat more expensive, but also light and quite portable, we have this Microsoft system. It is true that Surface systems in Spain have not been very well received, since we tend to prefer more consolidated brands.

This Microsoft system is characterized by having a 12.4-inch screen with a resolution of 1536 × 1024 pixels. I must say that when we start with weird resolutions like this, I already seem distant.

 

 

Currently, something less than a 1080p resolution, I consider that it does not make much sense.

This system has an Intel Core i5-1035G1 processor which has 4 cores and 8 threads. This processor works at a base frequency of 1 GHz and can reach 3.6 GHz in Boost mode. It integrates Intel UHD discrete graphics, to display images and little else. It is not a bad processor, but of course, it is designed for great autonomy of the system and it is that this Microsoft Surface offers us up to 13 hours of autonomy.

Perhaps the greatest strengths of this system is that it has 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM and a 128 GB SSD. Although in terms of storage it is very fair, it integrates 8 GB of RAM, double that of the previous system. Regarding connectivity, it offers WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0, as well as a USB-C, a USB-A and a headphone jack.

I don't like the resolution at all and that it only has 128 GB of capacity. I think it has a much better processor than the rest of the features of this laptop. In addition, here we pay for the logo, the same as in Apple systems. For me, there are better options for a similar price.

ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED K513EA
So far we have seen two laptops on sale, which for me every day, I would not acquire. Although they have their market and they are not bad solutions, in several points, key for me, they are lame a lot. The one that I would buy is this ASUS VivoBook, because it more than meets all the minimums, being from an excellent brand like ASUS and for having very good features.

The first thing I like is the screen, which is 15.6 inches with a 1080p resolution. Said screen is characterized by being of the OLED type with a typical brightness of 400 nits and offers a refresh rate of 60 Hz with a response time of 0.2 ms.

It has an Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor which has 4 cores and 8 threads. Said processor works at a frequency of 2.4 GHz and in Boost mode it reaches up to 4.2 GHz. This processor integrates an Iris Xe graphics that works at a maximum frequency of 1.3 GHz. The truth is that the family of Core-G7 (and G5) processors ) I like them a lot, I consider that they are very powerful processors with a very adjusted consumption.

This laptop has 12 GB of SODIMM RAM memory, of which 8 GB are in a module and 4 GB are soldered. I don't like soldering RAM as it makes it harder (or impossible) to expand the system but hey, the amount of memory is optimal. Regarding storage, it has a 512 GB capacity M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD, which is more than enough.

 

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