Sub-$400 Sandy Bridge Notebooks Hit The Market
Sub-$400 Sandy Bridge Notebooks Hit The Market
Posted 07/24/2011 at 8:54am
| by Jusitn Kerr
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Netbook sales have pretty much fallen off a cliff compared to this time last year, and Intel appears to be gearing up to drive another nail in the coffin. New Sub-$400 notebooks have begun appearing on Best Buy’s website, and they are actually pretty compelling. These cheap and cheerful little machines are rocking new stripped down Sandy Bridge parts that put last generation Atom chips to shame.
The $349 HP Pavilion g4-1004dx sports Intel’s new B940 Dual Core 2Ghz processor, 4GB of Ram, and a 320GB hard drive, and a 14-inch display. When you compare those specs with last year’s standard netbook that sold for around the same price, it’s not hard to see why this is a category is in deep trouble when compared to current and upcoming low cost notebooks.
The HP machine is the lowest cost Sandy Bridge laptop we’ve seen so far, but if you’re a Toshiba fan with an extra $30 to spend you can also pick up the nearly identical Satellite L755-S5216 with a slightly larger 15.6-inch display, and an extra hour of battery life.
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Keith E. Whisman
July 24, 2011 at 5:20pm
So where is my Sub $400 dollar MacBook? Wait there is no such animal? Shocking. These sub $400 dollar laptops wouldn't sell for a penny shy of $900 bucks if it had a Mac badge on it.
big_montana
July 24, 2011 at 7:06pm
Well, for $300 you can purchase a replacement Superdrive for a Mac. :)
don2041
July 24, 2011 at 2:54pm
Why don,t the specs ever include the graphics card ,intel ,amd or nvidia?
bzball58
July 24, 2011 at 7:54pm
You paid what you get, that's bascially why they do not include to the GPU info; you wouldn't expect to play games graphic intense games on these budget PCs now, would you?
goku_dsv
July 24, 2011 at 3:50pm
Probably because at those prices we are to assume they are integrated gpus?
don2041
July 24, 2011 at 4:09pm
I see your point but there are better or worse gpus even amongst integrated ones. Most people I talk to all agree that intel sucks at building integrated gpus
tom032792
July 24, 2011 at 8:34pm
The new sandy bridge chips come with integrated gpu's that are still no match for dedicated cards, however for the first time they deliver acceptable performance for casual users, and for less than 400 dollars, they would be considered quite the bargin, especially compared with graphics solutions in similarly priced laptops even 6 months or less ago, reguardless of if they are nvidia, amd or intel.
Bobking11
July 24, 2011 at 8:06pm
I completely disagree. On my old Vostro 220s, i had fried out my 8600 gt, and was awaiting a gt240. I decided to fire up the integrated graphics, and with the most recent drivers, i could run MW2 on medium settings at 30fps, and BC2 at low. They are obvouisly not the best, but they do their job just fine for the people that use them.
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