Walmart has
Gateway Laptop (Refurbished) on sale for
$319.
Shipping is free.
Thanks community member
dahlylogin for sharing this deal.
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Specs:
- 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 Processor (2.40 GHz, Up to 4.20 GHz, 8M Cache)
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- 14.1" LCD IPS FHD 1920x1080 Display
- Precision Touchpad
- 512GB Solid State Drive
- 16GB Memory (RAM)
- Built-in Fingerprint Scanner
- 1.0 MP Front-Facing Camera
- Up to 10 hours of battery life
- Inputs:
- 1x Micro SD Slot (Up to 512GB)
- 1x HDMI Output
- 1x USB Type-C
- 1x USB 3.0
- 1x USB 3.1
- Built-in Microphone
- 2x Built-in Stereo Speakers
- Bluetooth 5.1
- Weight: 4.0 lbs.
- Windows 10 Home (Free Upgrade to Windows 11 when available)
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SSD = solid state disk. Just means the drive uses "flash" memory instead of the older, slower, spinning magnetic platters (hard disk drive). Thankfully nowadays these are used in most computers and pretty much no one should be running a computer off a hard disk drive.
M.2 = This is a "form factor," i.e. the slot that the SSDs plug into in most modern laptops. Note m.2 drives come in different lengths, with the "2280" size being most common.
It gets confusing because there are M.2 drives that use the SATA interface and drives that use NVME interface. And then on computers, there are M.2 "slots" that only support SATA, there are "slots" that only support NVME (rare), and "slots" (most) that support both. Thus it is sometimes possible for a drive to physically fit but not function.
The NVME interface has more bandwidth than the SATA interface (i.e. the drive talks to the computer through a "fatter" pipe) so in theory is better, but only if the drives in question are fast enough to fill up the "pipe" (i.e. the pipe doesn't become a bottleneck). NVME drives will usually "test" as being faster using performance tests but often there is no noticeable difference to the user between an SATA SSD and an NVME SSD in "everyday" computing tasks.
Maybe someone can verify what I think somebody tried to share, which is that this laptop has two m.2 slots, but neither one supports NVME drives. Is this the case?
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This vid review recommends getting into the bios to up the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuJso3
But i think we agree that the specs and performance for the price aren't the problem....
On the fence vs. Target new HP for $276 (HP 14" Laptop with Windows Home in S mode - Intel Core i3 11th Gen Processor - 4GB RAM Memory - 128GB SSD Storage - Silver (14-dq2031tg)).
I can't decide...this for $338 or the Target deal for $276 ($62 diff). Bought and can return to Walmart after running through its paces i guess.
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It says you can return to store, 30 days after Dec 26th
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