With storage and RAM prices spiking, some hardware vendors are resorting to sketchy tactics to sell off cheap machines with measly configurations.
On Amazon, some third-party laptop sellers are listing cloud storage capacity as part of the device’s storage. A $499 15.6-inch laptop, for example, advertises 1.1TB of storage, even though only 128GB of that is local.
As storage and memory costs dipped over the years, configurations on low-cost laptops got more plentiful. But these days,…

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