What’s a good inexpensive lap top

[stevieray54]

What’s a good in inexpensive lap top brand. Wife needs one to operate her crinkle cut machine of some sort. Trying to stay under $500.00. Not looking for a Apple or anything high dollar. Thank you for your in put in advance

[captainsling]

I had good luck getting a good used Dell through their outlet. It is a refurbished that appears to be brand new when received and has lasted over a year so far with 0 issues.

[Roperyoung]

I bought a dell brand new at best buy a couple of years ago, not sure how much but I'm sure I didn't spend $500. It works fine for me and my wife used it with her vinyl cutting machine.

[Roperyoung]

looks like best buy has a sale...

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&sp=%2Bcurrentprice%20skuidsaas&st=laptop

[jdg13]

Most of the off the shelf computers all use pretty much the same hardware. Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo are all good and been around a long time. I wouldn't be afraid of a refurb either.

[Grayson]

I've been happy with my two Lenovos.

[3rdCoastHunter]

Good. Cheap. Reliable.

Choose 2

[BTLowry]

I have a HP Pavillion I got at Costco that has worked well for me

I suggest you get something with SSD as opposed to whatever you call the hard drive with moving parts (if they even make that kind of HD any more).
I had one lock up on me with no warning, tried every trick in the book to get it going with no luck. Just happened to try it one last time before getting rid of it (after months of tinkering with it) and it started, I downloaded all of the pictures stored on it to an external hard drive but lost a ton of bookmarked web stuff

[hopedale]

OP,

Really need to know what the software is that runs on the computer for the crinkle cut machine.

Without knowing that info, I'd recommend someting with an i5 processor (not the top one and not the bottom one), 16 gig of memory, and like someone already posted a solid state hard drive.

Here is a refurbished dell - https://www.officedepot.com/a/produc...hed-Laptop-14/

If you want new, here is a Lenovo - https://www.officedepot.com/a/produc...op-156-Screen/

Dell has all the specs I would want and is running Windows 10 Pro

Lenovo has all the specs I want except the memory and it running Windows 11.

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 Oct 2025 but does intend to let you install Windows 11 if your computer is compatiable.

I don't know to much about Windows 11, so if it were me, I'd stick witht he Dell machine to stay on Windows 10 for now.