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2 HN users recommended this between 2017 and 2018, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2017 and 2018, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F3R8XC6
This model is selling about 200 units a month just on Amazon.
Most popular one on that listing is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F3R9136?th=1, rank 1000 estimated 250 sales a month.
I'm estimating all the models on that listing together are selling about 1000 units a month.
Edit: went back and found some more listings:
https://www.amazon.com/HP-14-inch-E2-7110-Windows-14-an013nr... My tools are telling me this single item is selling 1500 units a month.
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-575-33BM-15-6-Inch-Processor-... estimated 2500 units a month.
Just look through https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-La... for the top laptops. Top 5 are all 4GB RAM.
Extrapolating a bit I'd say low end laptops are selling in the mid 5 figures of units per month on Amazon, or possibly low six figures.
And it seems that low end outsell high end in terms of number of units, at least - but since the high end can be 3 or more times the price, it's difficult to say how the total amount paid compares with this quick back of the envelope calculation.
There are several laptops in the $300-$500 range that would work depending on your needs. (i.e. the cheaper ones have i3 cpus.) Asus, HP, Dell, Acer, etc. Make sure to select one (though many are) that you can upgrade -- for lots of them you can put in up to 32 GB of RAM (some 64), install an m.2 SSD... I've had my eye on https://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-575-33BM-15-6-Inch-Notebook-G... for a long time in the event I need to get a new laptop for personal light dev use -- looks like they just refreshed a newer model too, linked from that page, though maybe not worth it if you're going to upgrade it.