I'm starting uni next week and like the smart, handsome and inspirational person I am, I dropped my laptop last night. It still turns on but screen is black. It is a 3 year old dell laptop I bought for like $1500 and it is just out of warranty so I think it is easier to buy a new laptop than pay for repairs.
That laptop was a bit of a waste imo since I have a gaming pc setup at home so all I need the laptop for is to open up my subject canvas, load the worksheets and project tasks, write essays etc. Even for my programming subjects I usually go home and code on my pc.
So I am just looking for some cheap laptop I can pick up tomorrow a day before my classes and get everything setup hopefully. At most i'll play like league of legends or honkai star rail at uni if i am super bored between classes.
I was thinking of just grabbing something crappy like a $300 chromebook or this laptop I found on jbhifi for $400 but I think I want something with like 16gb ram probably because I will have a lot of chrome tabs open.
Been looking through ozbargain but its mostly gaming laptops and all $1000+. Ive been looking at lenovo and hp since they were on unidays for student deals but they are still around $1k after the discount, they do seem pretty good though might have to afterpay or something to pay it off though.
Anyone seen any decent laptops around $500 or should I try to get secondhand?
Second hand surface pro