$600 Notebook Roundup

Anandtech has a $600 notebook roundup to see who will be crowned king of affordable laptops. +

Special holiday deals aside, $600 is the sweet spot for entry level notebooks these days, so what do you get for $600? That’s what we’re here to find out.

We’ve rounded up a total of five notebooks, each priced at $600 and put them through their paces - trying to find a winner. An interesting point to note is that most of the manufacturers we reviewed here today didn’t actually want their notebooks reviewed. While they would gladly send us more expensive models, most manufacturers shunned away the opportunity for their $600 notebooks to compete in this roundup. The real reason being that the profit margins on these notebooks are basically non-existent, the real money is made on upgrades or on higher priced solutions.

In it they review three Compaq notebooks, a Dell Inspiron, and a Gateway machine. I don’t know which one I would pick as I don’t really like any of the specifications on the machines listed, but if I had to pick one I might go towards the Gateway for its 3.7 hour battery life, as battery life is one of the highest components of my needs.

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