Cheap Win 10 laptop

Tom_M wrote:
For anyone near a Microcenter store here is about the cheapest Windows laptop. $59.99:

Evolve III Maestro 11.6" Laptop Computer

It comes with Windows 10 Pro Education installed.

Quote from Microsoft:

"Windows 10 Pro Education builds on the commercial version of Windows 10 Pro and provides important management controls needed in schools. Windows 10 Pro Education is effectively a variant of Windows Pro that provides education-specific default settings, including the removal of Cortana*. These default settings disable tips, tricks and suggestions & Microsoft Store suggestions".

I've had one for three weeks and have had no issues.

Full specs..
Evolve III Maestro 11.6" Laptop Computer - Dark Grey Intel Celeron N3450 1.1GHz Processor; 4GB LPDDR4-2133 RAM; 64GB ROM Data Storage; Intel HD Graphics 500

Basically just barely minimum specs to run Win10.

The Celeron processor used goes way back to the "Apollo Lake" builds and is in the same "family" of Intel processors as a Pentium4 (P4) and "Atom" processors. The only saving grace with this version is the 4 processor cores but consider that as a very small amount of grace.

The HD500 Graphics won't win any beauty or speed contests and 4GB of Ram is right on the razor edge of not enough memory for a 64Bit OS.

The small screen is a notch bigger than a Tablet and smaller than a "Surface".

64GB of drive space will become a problem quickly as you typically need 20GB of space for Win updates while they are being installed.

Be aware, Win10 pro education is only available through Enterprise or Volume licensing and is meant for Schools to buy and setup for classroom use.. Not intended for retail sale and public use.. It is not full OS so there will be some features, tools and some customizations that may or may not be available.

At $60 it is cheap enough to take a chance, however given that the OS may have Enterprise or Volume licensing keys it may or may not stay activated without phoning home periodically to the proper activation server which is typically deployed on the Enterprise of Volume license server network of the school it was intended for..

Toss the dice and take your chances..