This cheap HP laptop hides a surprising secret that barely anyone noticed
HP 14-DK1003DX – $239.99 at Best Buy
(roughly £190/AU$350)
This exceptionally affordable HP laptop from Best Buy contains the AMD Athlon Silver – a processor found in only very few other laptops. It also comes with a range of freebies to sweeten the package, like free antivirus and cloud storage. If you don’t mind the antiquated display resolution, it’s well worth a punt.View Deal
You won’t find this laptop on HP’s own website, but the 14-DK1003DX – a Best Buy exclusive at $239.99 (roughly £190/AU$350) – has an intriguing quality that not many have picked up on.
The machine is one of very few business laptops to come with an AMD Athlon Silver processor. Athlon was the iconic CPU brand that helped drive the company forward the beginning of this century and has been in limbo for about a decade. It’s now back and (surprise, surprise) is powered by AMD’s Zen+ architecture.
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The rest of the specification is adequate for the price: there’s 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD (not eMMC), a 14-inch display, Windows 10 Home in S Mode (which can be upgraded to Windows 10 Home), a 3-cell Lithiu
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