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Tom’s Guide
Tom’s Guide
Technology
Jeff Parsons

I tried using a $164 laptop as my daily driver — it went about as well as you'd expect

The Geobook 2E budget laptop on a desk in front of an external monitor in a brightly lit office.

There's a tendency to get a little used to the gadget good life when you cover tech for a living. While I recognize I'm in a privileged position to go hands on with the best laptops or multitask with aplomb on a MacBook Air M2 — that's not the case for most people. That led a thought to bubble up inside my brain; could I run Tom's Guide and all that entails on a $120 laptop?

Tl;dr: no, no I can't. Not by a long shot. But that didn't stop me giving it a try one drizzly April morning in London. 

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