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HP 15.6" Laptop with Windows Home in S Mode – Intel Pentium Processor N5030- 8GB RAM - 256GB SSD Storage – Silver (15-dy0025tg) $269.99

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Specs:

-15.6-inch diagonal HD micro-edge BrightView display
-Windows 10 Home (S mode) operating system, Microsoft 365 compatible
-Free upgrade to Windows 11 when available*
-Intel® Pentium® Silver N5030 with Intel® UHD Graphics 605
-8 GB DDR4-2400 memory and 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD internal storage
-HP Fast Charge, HP True Vision HD Camera
-Up to 11 hours of battery life
-1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C®, 2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A, 1 Headphone/microphone combo, 1 AC Smart pin, 1 HDMI 1.4b, 1 Multi-format SD media card reader
-10 Key Non-Backlit Keyboard
-720p TN panel
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thegman230
12-07-2021 at 05:20 PM.
12-07-2021 at 05:20 PM.
Can people please stop posting this same junk 5000 times. Literally the same notifications over and over again
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nycab
12-07-2021 at 05:37 PM.
12-07-2021 at 05:37 PM.
Quote from WittyMaid7590 :
Is this a good deal.. Asking for a friend for a student

Nope. If you're really on a tight budget get the Walmart refurbs or go used. This Pentium processor and the display are gonna hurt.
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a2bondfn
12-07-2021 at 06:30 PM.
12-07-2021 at 06:30 PM.
Quote from The_Love_Spud :
Given the closeness in price to this deal, if you can locate the other Target offer consider grabbing that right away as an alternative to this computer. You will want to put a RAM upgrade on the Christmas/birthday list for that other deal, but you're also making a better general investment of $270. The trade you're making is a better CPU and 1080p screen, at the cost of less RAM (which can be upgraded) and a smaller SSD storage drive (which a budget/productivity user may never notice, but which can also be upgraded later if needed!).

Good luck!
Jon
Jon is 100% correct here. I think this CPU really limits you in a way that the other Target deal HP does not. Buy once, cry once. upgrade the RAM on the other device, and youre in business with a solid basic laptop that can serve students with simple needs. You wont rock crysis, but fortnite on that one should be fine. This one is only good for rudimentary browsing
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The_Love_Spud
12-07-2021 at 07:01 PM.
12-07-2021 at 07:01 PM.
Quote from caotico :
What about Celeron?
The laptop in this deal is equipped with the Pentium Silver N5030, which is a 4-core Atom-based CPU. That does technically mean Intel positions these above Atom-based Celerons (which these days includes models with 2 or 4 Atom cores).

Contrast this with Pentium Gold CPUs (positioned just above Pentium Silver) constructed from two, more capable i-series cores.

Knowing these CPUs is helpful because though they're all functional - all of them can run Windows - you'd probably do well to skip them all in favor of a 4-core i-series CPU like the i3-1125G4 system I recommended above when shopping for a basic Windows productivity PC. Otherwise, some of these lesser CPUs are fine choices for more lightweight operating systems like ChromeOS or certain distributions of Linux.

Good luck!
Jon
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DaronMax
12-07-2021 at 07:10 PM.
12-07-2021 at 07:10 PM.
The other target deal is way better than this.

You only need to upgrade the ram.

But for this deal, the screen and cpu are the weakest link which you can't even upgrade.
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coolmann
12-07-2021 at 07:42 PM.
12-07-2021 at 07:42 PM.
Quote from arribasn :
I got this same spec laptop with 14" screen but 4gb ram and 128gb hd last month from target for $179. I'll upgrade to 12gb ram for $20 but probably wouldn't spend more
I thought you couldn't upgrade the RAM on the Asus on sale last month. I bought it just because of the backlit keyboard, and I like it so far.
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The_Love_Spud
12-07-2021 at 08:03 PM.
12-07-2021 at 08:03 PM.
Quote from Jilow :
This laptop will be snappy for general browsing, email, homework, powerpoint presentations and low intensity games (e.g. Sims 4 and below).

The screen is 720p (a little nicer looking than a DVD's resolution) so it's fine for a YouTube video but if you do a movie night you may wish to use the HDMI port to connect to a high resolution T.V.
Please consider updating the thread title from Intel Pentium Processor to Intel Pentium Silver N5030 as the latter is more informative.

Good luck!
Jon
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Examiner44
12-07-2021 at 08:59 PM.
12-07-2021 at 08:59 PM.
Quote from WittyMaid7590 :
Is this a good deal.. Asking for a friend for a student
No. While many at of the specs are acceptable, the display is terrible… that is a deal breaker for me.
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Luigis3rdcousin
12-07-2021 at 09:01 PM.
12-07-2021 at 09:01 PM.
Passmark score for the pentium N5030, aka the squirrel in a wheel processor.

Passmark : 2684.

To put into perspective, I have an older dell latitude E7270 thin and light with an i5 6300u and it's Passmark is 3000 and I paid 250$ for that last year, used on eBay, of course. latitudes are known for being durable machines. But I'm not saying everyone go out and buy a refurbished former enterprise grade laptop unless your totally comfortable with that, but for this price and what you get, it's falling into that price point where you could get something older that was considered mid range or high end and still performs better.
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12-07-2021 at 09:03 PM.
12-07-2021 at 09:03 PM.
Quote from The_Love_Spud :
Please consider updating the thread title from Intel Pentium Processor to Intel Pentium Silver N5030 as the latter is more informative.

Good luck!
Jon

And also tell him to upgrade the title of the cpu processor to the performance of a hand cranked pencil sharpener 😂
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igyp
12-08-2021 at 03:01 AM.
12-08-2021 at 03:01 AM.
Quote from BeigeStew7045 :
This is a pentium processor, it is the lowest end windows computer they make. No way it is worth $269.

If you get to buy windows OS alone is $110 and 8gb memory will make smooth and 256 HD plenty. Remember who wants to buy low price computers don't know much about it and the just surf the web, check emails, YouTube,read news and possible Netflix... the screen could be a little better like at list HD. Walmart have a better one for $100 more.
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NhewFone
12-08-2021 at 03:53 AM.
12-08-2021 at 03:53 AM.
Quote from The_Love_Spud :
The laptop in this deal is equipped with the Pentium Silver N5030, which is a 4-core Atom-based CPU. That does technically mean Intel positions these above Atom-based Celerons (which these days includes models with 2 or 4 Atom cores).

Contrast this with Pentium Gold CPUs (positioned just above Pentium Silver) constructed from two, more capable i-series cores.

Knowing these CPUs is helpful because though they're all functional - all of them can run Windows - you'd probably do well to skip them all in favor of a 4-core i-series CPU like the i3-1125G4 system I recommended above when shopping for a basic Windows productivity PC. Otherwise, some of these lesser CPUs are fine choices for more lightweight operating systems like ChromeOS or certain distributions of Linux.

Good luck!
Jon

Can you share a link to a laptop with said CPU at same price point and same amount or more of RAM?
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rafc1971
12-08-2021 at 05:02 AM.
12-08-2021 at 05:02 AM.
Quote from arribasn :
I got this same spec laptop with 14" screen but 4gb ram and 128gb hd last month from target for $179. I'll upgrade to 12gb ram for $20 but probably wouldn't spend more

Where did you get the 12 gb of ram for $20 asking for a friend
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cgigate
12-08-2021 at 05:46 AM.
12-08-2021 at 05:46 AM.
720p screen makes the font bigger, good for some people
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Mysterio69
12-08-2021 at 06:22 AM.
12-08-2021 at 06:22 AM.
Pentium. I. Bought one of those 15 years ago. Crap
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