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by Marsymars 525 days ago
> Refurbished laptops can be superior in comparison to cheap Bestbuy laptops.

They can be, but there's an inflection point of age. For ~400 USD you can get an all-E-core i3-N305/512GB SSD/8GB RAM/1080p laptop - which is about on-par for performance with a midrange 4-core CPU from the final 14nm mobile chips (Comet Lake, 2019). With the N305 you get notably lower power draw under load.