{"id":643621,"date":"2013-02-22T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340539"},"modified":"2013-02-22T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:10:11","slug":"forget-the-surface-pro-consumer-reports-finds-plenty-of-great-low-cost-windows-8-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643621","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Surface Pro: Consumer Reports finds plenty of great low-cost Windows 8 laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/low-cost-windows-8-laptop-analysis-340539\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/lgwindows8.jpg?w=650&amp;h=531&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Low Cost Windows 8 Laptop\" title=\"Windows 8 Laptops\" \/><\/a><\/center>If you think the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/29\/microsoft-surface-pro-release-date-pricing\/\">$899 Surface Pro is too rich for your blood<\/a>, don&#8217;t sweat it: there are plenty of cheaper quality alternatives out there. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.consumerreports.org\/electronics\/2013\/02\/computer-reviews-laptops-windows8-ratings-tested.html\"><em>Consumer Reports<\/em> has been testing out<\/a> several low-cost <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> laptops and has found that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/11\/acer-aspire-m5-v5-release-date-specs-windows-8\/\">they aren&#8217;t just priced well but that they perform well too<\/a>. Among the winners were <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/asus\">ASUS&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=2357.TW&amp;ql=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">2357<\/a>) S56CA-DH51, a 15-inch laptop that costs $650 and that\u00a0<em>Consumer Reports<\/em> praises for &#8220;very good performance and excellent ergonomics&#8221;; Sony&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=sne\">SNE<\/a>)\u00a0VAIO SVT-13122CXS, a 13-inch ultrabook that costs $625; and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/tag\/acer\">Acer&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=2353.TW&amp;ql=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">2353<\/a>)\u00a0M5-581T-6807, a $600, 15.6-inch laptop that <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> says has &#8220;excellent performance and respectable battery life.&#8221; With so many quality laptops priced under $700, <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> hopes that it&#8217;s a sign that &#8220;more inexpensive touch screen laptops are coming soon.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/W4SmpLkvFt8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the $899 Surface Pro is too rich for your blood, don&#8217;t sweat it: there are plenty of cheaper quality alternatives out there. Consumer Reports has been testing out several low-cost Windows 8 laptops and has found that they aren&#8217;t just priced well but that they perform well too. Among the winners were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}