Looking for a $500 laptop..........

Not too familiar with whats been happening in the laptop industry and what main companies and their warranty policies are great atm so I am wondering if anyone can assist me in looking for a laptop in the $500 range. Mainly CPU performance and not so much for GPU. It will be mainly used for car audio tuning, dyno tuning and data logging and w/e general things that you do with a laptop. So with that said, I am looking for something with the most CPU performance, a good amount of RAM and a SSD, PCI-E prefer like the XP941 if possible and if not, no big deal and screen size won't matter.

A brief search yeilded these results:

Lenovo Y40

Lenovo Flex 2

Anything below that price point is refurbished. To get what your looking for.. you'll have to double your current budget.

This website:
http://www.bobjohnson.com/
has refurbed toughbooks at very reasonable prices. I personally am looking at a brand new Getac B300 but have a bit yet before I can fork the cash over.

I got a $230 Asuslappy on sale last year. Very basic crappy specs, for the price point. I can't see much better than that for a lappy platform, going upwards for 500$. Even if it is a good deal. A good CPU lappy usually is in the 800 buck range. We know a good mobile CPU is about $300.. Add GPU, well don't matter in this situation. New lappy with a good CPU and RAM runs abpout 600-900 bucks. You know that, and why you asked.

Might perhaps, see if a tablet would suite you better? See if Android or Apple has software/hardware to fill your needs.

Enablingwolf said:

I got a $230 Asuslappy on sale last year. Very basic crappy specs, for the price point. I can't see much better than that for a lappy platform, going upwards for 500$. Even if it is a good deal. A good CPU lappy usually is in the 800 buck range. We know a good mobile CPU is about $300.. Add GPU, well don't matter in this situation. New lappy with a good CPU and RAM runs abpout 600-900 bucks. You know that, and why you asked.

Might perhaps, see if a tablet would suite you better? See if Android or Apple has software/hardware to fill your needs.

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Well I wasn't sure and wasn't familiar with whats out there and whats good. Regardless, it was for a family member I was assisting. All is well since they already grabbed one now.

Thanks to all that helped out.