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Today at the company's partner conference, Microsoft announced that HP is working on a $200 Windows 8 laptop for this coming holiday season, with options from Acer and Toshiba that are in the $250 range. There's no word on the HP device's internals, but the Acer and the Toshiba will offer 11.6- and 15.6-inch displays respectively, and run 2.16GHz Intel Celeron processors.
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It's good to see that the price of smaller laptops are cheaper instead of paying $300 for a laptop which only has 2GB of RAM, onboard video and a dual-core CPU which can't play many good PC games on medium video quality settings.
I think computer makers should sell $200-300 desktop computers which can play most popular PC games like Minecraft, League of Legends, Dota 2, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, and most games on Steam rather than making cheap laptops which are good for watching videos, school work, and office work, but far too slow for enjoyable gaming even on low to medium video quality settings.
Most people these days own tablets, and smartphones which are good enough for reading the news while at the library, and there are a lot of public desktop computers at most places which people can use for free at the library, work, school, or at an internet cafe for a few dollars an hour.
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It's good to see that the price of smaller laptops are cheaper instead of paying $300 for a laptop which only has 2GB of RAM, onboard video and a dual-core CPU which can't play many good PC games on medium video quality settings.
I think computer makers should sell $200-300 desktop computers which can play most popular PC games like Minecraft, League of Legends, Dota 2, Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, and most games on Steam rather than making cheap laptops which are good for watching videos, school work, and office work, but far too slow for enjoyable gaming even on low to medium video quality settings.
Most people these days own tablets, and smartphones which are good enough for reading the news while at the library, and there are a lot of public desktop computers at most places which people can use for free at the library, work, school, or at an internet cafe for a few dollars an hour.
