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Computer Care Budget laptops by Alan Stainer You may be tempted to buy a £200 laptop, but be careful what you buy or you might find yourself with a useless piece of a tech. Chromebooks are good and reasonably priced. They manage this because they are built around web apps. That means you don’t need much storage space or processing power, because everything is done via the web. Microsoft have brought out a range of budget laptops to compete with Chromebooks. Windows was never designed to run using web apps alone and therefore requires much more space and processing power to run smoothly. A case in point, a Windows 10 laptop I was asked to look at was running low on space. It was new and still had the default programs installed. When I looked I found the hard disk only had 27.8 GBs of space in total, which is not enough for Windows, especially since Microsoft started pushing applications onto Windows 10 without user consent. While I was watching, the available space dropped down to zero bytes. There isn’t really anything to be done in that situation, other than take the device back and get a refund. If it had been a Chromebook, or a more expensive Windows laptop, everything would have been fine. www.alansitsolutions.com
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