Buying a cheap laptop is easy. You just go to Best Buy or Newegg or Amazon or Walmart or somewhere, you pick the cheapest one or the most expensive one that fits whatever your budget is, and you buy it. For as little as $200 or $300, you can bring home something new as in, “new in box” not as in, “was released recently” that will power up and boot Windows or ChromeOS. Buying a decent cheap laptop, or recommending one to someone else whos trying to buy one? Thats hard. For several years I...