Article 77HYS Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat.

So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi announced a $450 Windows laptop with an aluminum build and a brand-new Intel Wildcat Lake processor, it sounded too good to be true.

It is.

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ProsCons
  • It's $450
  • Tons of ports for a small laptop (though none are very ...

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