Our Favorite Budget Laptop Is Now Just $349
There are laptops that are priced so aggressively they rarely go on sale. The Acer Aspire E 15 is one of those laptops.
However, for a limited time Amazon is taking $30 off the Aspire's full price and offering it for just $349.99. That's only the second time this laptop has been on sale. (It briefly dropped to $320 on Black Friday).
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The Aspire E 15 packs a respectable amount of hardware for its price. It features a 15.6-inch 1080p LCD, a 2.2GHz Core i3-8130U dual-core CPU, 6GB of RAM, and a 1TB HDD. It's not what we'd call a cutting edge laptop, but in our review it offered excellent price-to-performance ratio.
The laptop had enough muscle to load 10 Firefox tabs with ease, even while playing a YouTube video at 1080p. We eventually hit some minor lag when we doubled the number of tabs, played two more full- HD YouTube videos, and watched a Twitch stream. However, we were surprisingly pleased with the machine's performance. The laptop also has an excellent amount of ports and it even comes with a built-in 8x DVD-RW double-layer drive.
In a nutshell, this machine gives you solid performance for the price. It's the best sub-$400 laptop you'll find.
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Louis wrote about some of the best tech deals for Laptop Mag. With a keen eye for discounts and the ability to tell a great deal apart from a fake sale, Louis covered deals on laptops, tablets, and other gadgets, as well as seasonal sales. He spotted some of the best MacBook deals and reported on all the best Prime Day and Black Friday sales at the time. He's now the deals editor-in-chief at Tom's Guide, digging for sales on 4K TVs, Apple devices, streaming services, and more.