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Mossberg: Can a $150 Windows laptop be any good?

Discussion in 'Microsoft News' started by Walt Mossberg, Nov 18, 2015.

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    For the past few days, I've been testing a new $150 laptop. It's a no-frills, thin-and-light model with an 11.6 inch high-definition screen. It has decent battery life, and weighs just 2.2 pounds.

    If that sounds like a Chromebook, one of the increasingly popular low-cost laptops from Google that are a essentially a web browser for using apps in the cloud, think again. This is a full-fledged Windows 10 machine, from Lenovo, one of the premier brands in computing. It can handle a wide variety of both local and cloud-based apps.

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    Walt Mossberg, Nov 18, 2015
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