£100 laptops: part one
I read your £100 laptop article (see issue 344, p26) with interest, remembering well the brief excitement of the netbook craze in the early 2000s. While the price may seem attractive, it was sad to read that the majority of the tested devices are stuck on Windows 10 due to lack of disk space. That is shocking in our climate-conscious world. Are we really OK with a product that becomes landfill or a security vulnerability in just over two years? I think that is massively irresponsible on the part of both manufacturers and buyers.
You’re right to say that few people really need the speed of the latest Core i7-equipped laptops, but a far better route would be to keep using the laptop you already have for a
