This is Amazon’s best-selling laptop for Prime Day and I just can’t recommend it – buy these better laptops instead

This HP laptop is Amazon’s most purchased notebook in early Prime Day sales. Still, I truly cannot recommend it as it uses an Intel N100 processor, which is very poor value for money for a laptop that costs just shy of $500 (and yes, that 75% discount claim seems dubious).

Yes, it has 32GB of RAM, 1TB SSD and even Windows 11 Pro but that’s just not good enough to sway my opinion of this laptop. So instead, here are five other laptops I’d personally recommend.

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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.