Best laptop for $100, $200, $300.

[teflonfrog]

Hi. I am looking for laptops for:
$100: Just to see if this is possible
$200: Basics (school work, Word, PowerPoint, YouTube)
$300: Basics + Extremely light gaming (LoL, MineCraft, etc)

I want to stay away from Chromebooks since I read that they can't get Word, which is a must for my school work.
Thanks.

 

[basroil]

Absolutely none of those are possible.

The closest though are:
~$200 http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834234034 (you'll need to buy a $50 SD card if you want to install Office though!)
and
~$350 http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315421 (minecraft w/o mods is fine, LoL might get 30fps)

 

[dudeman509]

Go for an i3 or Pentium at the bare minimum. You will hate everything below that with a passion.

At that price range, an i3-6100U like the one linked would be the best you can do, which is fine - should be usable for most school work and maybe some older games on the iGPU.

 

[k1114]

At 200 or less, you are probably looking at chromebooks and tablets.

 

[inanition02]

The quad-core atom 2 in 1s or mini laptops (mostly from ASUS) can be good values and can work just fine if you lower your expectations a bit. I use one of the T100TA line (quad-core atom, 2gb of RAM, 64gb eMMC) as my ultraportable for long trips. Battery is great and office apps work just fine. But it won't game (beyond things like minesweeper ).

If you're really looking for cheap laptops, you can mine that one big auction site or those online classifieds...but buyer beware on some of them. You might get a great deal on something someone just wants out of their house. Or you might get a piece of junk.

 

[velo3100]

For that price I would recommend tablets as they are normally better than their laptop counterparts if you don't mind using a touchscreen.If you insist on a laptop, they will not be very good, most have terrible displays and slow cpus. I strongly suggest you save up.