The difference between a cheapo ‘netbook’ and a high-end laptop is…

… about 450 gigabytes in storage.

I was looking for a cheap, small form-factor laptop on a comparison site that lists thousands of them and I found plenty of cheap ones.

When I made the two screenshots above, I had only selected a screen size, and I had sorted the results by price. The left side of the illustration shows Chromebooks and such, with storage between 16 and 64 gigabytes and prices around 150 euros. The thing I changed to get the results on the right (prices around 1,000 euros) was to set the minimum storage to 500 GB.

When I indicated I needed more than just a handful of bytes of storage, the prices sky-rocketed.

Now I know there are more differences than just storage between these two categories, but I don’t need a better screen or a faster processor to watch some videos, write e-mails and read blog posts. Storage would be nice though.

I guess if you want a cheap, small laptop with a decent amount of storage, you will have to swap out the SSD yourself.

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