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I think there are not many people looking for an affordable $200 Windows 10 laptop which is very durable with a waterproof keyboard, and strong rubber or hard plastic case which can protect their laptops from falls.

Most $200 Windows laptops get outdated after a few years where 2GB of RAM, a dual-core Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz CPU, and 32GB of storage is not fast enough to run Windows 10 at an usable speed unless you never update Windows 10, and keep using older software like Notepad, WordPad, and MS Office 2007.

$200 is not a lot of money for building a laptop, so users may more likely buy a laptop with a cheap thin plastic case to hold a 13 inch 1080P screen, 4 GB RAM, slightly faster Intel Celeron CPU, and 64GB of storage rather than a slower Windows laptop with a more expensive durable rubber case with a lot of rubber padding, and a waterproof keyboard.
 
$200? Hahah, please. Try 400+ durable laptops. Had someone the other day come in with a $500 laptop, they spilled just a little water onto their keyboard and the whole thing was out of order.
 
With 355$ you will be able to get one. Try Inspiron 15 3000 series.
It's got i5 processor
 
Demon_Skeith said:
$200? Hahah, please. Try 400+ durable laptops. Had someone the other day come in with a $500 laptop, they spilled just a little water onto their keyboard and the whole thing was out of order.
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I wonder if the person's laptop was already rusting from someone drooling on the laptop or steam from boiling water at a coffee shop, and the little bit of water finally rusted out a part inside of the laptop where it no longer work.

Windows laptops are not as durable as they used to be. I read a few posts like MacBook Pro Rust and Rust?! - General Hardware - Laptop - Dell Community of metal laptop like Apple Macbook and Dell XPS metal laptop casing having rust on them. Some metal laptop's metal case bend when people accidentally flex them or sit on them.

The Asus C202S Chromebook can survive water being spilled on the laptop.


A cheap Acer Chromebook survived being dropped, stood on, and water spilled on it on this video.

 
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Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and other Ubuntu based operating system is a popular choice for Chromebook users who want to use Steam for Linux, Gimp, LibreOffice, and other Linux programs which are proven to work in Ubuntu.
 
Ubuntu works fine as a beginner distro and as a distro for those who don't want to bother with configurations and customisations too much, but a trade in is that Ubuntu is quite bloated and might therefore be much slower than most other distro's.

I gave Ubuntu 17.10 a try after many years of switching to an Arch based distro or Mint, and while I still have to use it at work, I switched myself back to Manjaro at home, because the constant crashes on my 2012 Mac Mini were too annoying (works well enough on my workstation at work though).
 
I find that switching the desktop environment to LXDE or XFCE helps at making Ubuntu perform faster than using the default Unity or GNOME desktop environment on an old 2008 desktop computer which I owned.

Ubuntu ran faster than Windows Vista, and 7 on the same computer.
 
It helps yes, but I think you will need to strip Ubuntu down more than that.
I ran Lubuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE) on a work PC (which was about 4 years old at the time) back in 2010, and it was still slow and laggy regardless.
But it could also be because LXDE was still not a solid DE at the time.

But installing Debian on it with IceWM helped a lot.
It was ugly like hell, but at least it worked.
 
Adding drain holes at the bottom of the laptop, and a cover which cover the motherboard may help.

A rubber keyboard protectors may help protect against small spills. But, I think users may need to have one custom made for less popular laptop models since almost no one make keyboard protectors for less popular laptops.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Adding drain holes at the bottom of the laptop, and a cover which cover the motherboard may help.

A rubber keyboard protectors may help protect against small spills. But, I think users may need to have one custom made for less popular laptop models since almost no one make keyboard protectors for less popular laptops.
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pretty sure once the water hits the mother board its done.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
pretty sure once the water hits the mother board its done.
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Some motherboards with a special water resistant coating/paint and materials will survive water. But, it would be too expensive to make a waterproof motherboard, so very few users will buy one. I think only a few users like sailors in the Navy, or Soldiers in the Army will need a laptop which is totally waterproof.

Asrock made a waterproof motherboard with a waterproof coating and other materials.

ASRock's Z87 OC Formula motherboard with conformal coating, making it completely waterproof.

 
Demon_Skeith said:
you won't see that in all laptop makers though.
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I think most people won't pay a lot of money to waterproof their non-waterproof laptop.

I think mostly popular rich writer, computer programmer, game mskers, artist, etc would pay a lot of monet to waterproof their laptop, or buy a more exoensive waterproof laptop. Sone files like books, games, and PC programs are very valuable where they can earn thousands to millions of dollars from selling them to their many fans and users.

They may cannot take the risk of a random flood or water spill from damaging their files which they have not backed up the most recent version of the file.
 
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