Cheap Win 10 laptop
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 Mi...
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Glad it is working for you.
Just warning folks up ahead that it does have limitations.
You got lucky on your old one with only 32GB of space, Win8 took a lot less space to install originally, 12GB-16GB, typically using Win10 upgrade path requires at a min of 20GB of free space..
A lot of folks have had issues with Win10 updates failing to install on the devices with only 32GB unless they add an external USB flash drive during the update because of the lack of free space.
Bare metal install of Win10 takes about 20GB-24GB, generally you need at least 20GB of free space for major updates (IE "Refresh") since those are handled like an upgrade and all existing system files are replaced with the update. The old files are compressed and held in a temporary folder in case the operation goes sideways during the update.
In the case of your new device, 64GB should be OK for a while but keep in mind, every App or software you install plus any files you save will eventually encroach on the minimum free space required for updates to install properly.
As far as W10 32bit goes on 2GB of memory, that is fine, 32bit by MS's rules is not able to see, use, address more than 3.2GB.
Win10 64Bit, while it can run on as low as 1GB of Ram, it is painfully slow and it makes more use of your HD Page file than it should. I have run Win10 64bit on 3GB of RAM, 3GB was a vast improvement over 2GB of RAM. Minimum I would recommend for Win10 64bit is 8 GB of RAM, that gives the OS some breathing space without needing to constantly read/write to the Page file. Win10 performance improves nicely once you give it more than the absolute minimum specs.
Absolute minimum HD size I would recommend for Win10 (32 bit and 64 bit) is 250GB, gives you lots of space for Apps and programs plus data.
As long as you are willing to accept the risks and don't mind that it isn't going to set the world on fire, then by all means roll with it, at $60 it is inexpensive.
But for those who see only the low cost, they do need to know that you are not getting a whole lot speed and storage wise for that money.. For another $200 one can get a new real laptop with a much larger screen, faster processor, more memory and more drive space and be a bit more future proof.
Just warning folks up ahead that it does have limitations.
You got lucky on your old one with only 32GB of space, Win8 took a lot less space to install originally, 12GB-16GB, typically using Win10 upgrade path requires at a min of 20GB of free space..
A lot of folks have had issues with Win10 updates failing to install on the devices with only 32GB unless they add an external USB flash drive during the update because of the lack of free space.
Bare metal install of Win10 takes about 20GB-24GB, generally you need at least 20GB of free space for major updates (IE "Refresh") since those are handled like an upgrade and all existing system files are replaced with the update. The old files are compressed and held in a temporary folder in case the operation goes sideways during the update.
In the case of your new device, 64GB should be OK for a while but keep in mind, every App or software you install plus any files you save will eventually encroach on the minimum free space required for updates to install properly.
As far as W10 32bit goes on 2GB of memory, that is fine, 32bit by MS's rules is not able to see, use, address more than 3.2GB.
Win10 64Bit, while it can run on as low as 1GB of Ram, it is painfully slow and it makes more use of your HD Page file than it should. I have run Win10 64bit on 3GB of RAM, 3GB was a vast improvement over 2GB of RAM. Minimum I would recommend for Win10 64bit is 8 GB of RAM, that gives the OS some breathing space without needing to constantly read/write to the Page file. Win10 performance improves nicely once you give it more than the absolute minimum specs.
Absolute minimum HD size I would recommend for Win10 (32 bit and 64 bit) is 250GB, gives you lots of space for Apps and programs plus data.
As long as you are willing to accept the risks and don't mind that it isn't going to set the world on fire, then by all means roll with it, at $60 it is inexpensive.
But for those who see only the low cost, they do need to know that you are not getting a whole lot speed and storage wise for that money.. For another $200 one can get a new real laptop with a much larger screen, faster processor, more memory and more drive space and be a bit more future proof.
