Speaking very broadly, there are two kinds of laptops: Cheap ones and more premium ones. The dividing line tends to be in the $500.00 to $700.00 range — something lower-priced, like under $500, will generally be a lower-end budget laptop, and the more “serious” notebooks come as you get higher than that mark.
Of the laptops on sale for Presidents’ Day, the best option on a smaller budget is probably the 15.6-inch version of the HP Envy x360, which is on sale at Best Buy for $649.99 — $400.00 off. Whether you’re going by the retail price or the discounted one, it sits comfortably in a price range where a higher level of quality is expected.
The x360 features a 1080p full HD display, an AMD Ryzen 7 7000 Series APU, 16GB of RAM, and a 516GB solid-state drive. As reviews go, Wired recommended it, calling it a strong laptop for its price range with particularly good performance in business apps — albeit while wishing for a higher resolution display, and PC Mag shared similar sentiments. At this sale price in particular, you shouldn’t necessarily be expecting something super flashy so much as something solid, and by all accounts, the x360 is solid.
