Crowning the Affordability King
 

The beauty of PC technology is that, unlike cars for example, the entry level model rarely makes you sacrifice all that much over the more expensive offerings. With desktop PCs, entry level and mid-range solutions are usually a GPU and memory upgrade away from being considered high end, but with notebooks, there's a slightly different story.

The problem is that notebooks are still not quite upgrade friendly, so you're usually stuck with what you get out of the box with the exception of a memory or drive upgrade. So the worry is that cheap notebooks make you sacrifice far too much to even consider, but do they in reality? Special holiday deals aside, $600 is the sweet spot for entry level notebooks these days, so what do you get for $600? That's what we're here to find out.

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