<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Mark,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I had a client of mine purchase the same the laptop. I came to the tend conclusion you did. It even has one removable DIMM slot.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So the answer is no. But the screen quality was kinda bad. So I don't know if it's good for long term use.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Jared</div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org> </div><div>Date: 4/27/22 7:13 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: NMGLUG org mailing list <nmglug@nmglug.org> </div><div>Subject: [nmglug] best laptop for under $400 these days? </div><div><br></div></div><br>Dear nmglug,<br><br>We will be giving our summer interns a $400 stipend to get a computer. <br><br>Last year y'all sent me to the Asus VivoBook Ryzen 3 at this link:<br><br>https://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-VivoBook-F412-14-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-3-3250U-AMD-Radeon-Vega-3-Graphics-8GB-RAM-256GB-PCIe-SSD-Slate-Grey-Windows-10-in-S-Mode-F412DA-WS33/441731292<br><br>and it worked out wonderfully for our students.<br><br>With a year passing, does anyone know if there's another contender in the < $400 space now?<br>_______________________________________________<br>nmglug mailing list<br>nmglug@lists.nmglug.org<br>http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org<br></body></html>