best laptop for IB? less than 300 dollars?
i will buy a desktop when I move to the new apartment. for now. I need a fast laptop with a big screen to wfh. any suggestions?
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Used Dell latitude on ebay with a 5th+ gen i5/i7 and an SSD. Idk what you mean by big screen but I find 14 to be enough for most things. I got one for just over 200 incl. tax and it boots up in 10 seconds and handles everything I throw at it pretty well.
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