Montana Money: Top 5 Budget Laptops for 2014

Your computer just crashed and you do not have a great deal of money to spend. There are really some good budget laptops out this year. You can find laptops with 4 to 6 GB RAM and hard drive space between 500 MB and 1 TB for under $700.

You might need a new laptop for work or school but you have a tight budget. These top 5 laptops should work fine with any budget.

Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5

The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 is a good budget laptop. It is solidly built and attractive. It has a large keyboard and touchpad making it good for gaming. The Acer Aspire M5 has the following features:

Screen size: 15.6"
CPU: Intel Core i5-3317U - 1.7GHz processor speed
RAM: 6GB
Main hard drive is 500GB
The operating system is currently listed as Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
The Acer Aspire M5 M5-581T-6024 currently costs $650.

Toshiba Satellite C Series Laptops

The Toshiba Satellite C55-A5245 15.6 inch laptop is rated highly and should fit nicely into any tight budget with a current price of $415. The main complaint is the 4 hour battery life. The Toshiba Satellite comes with the following features.

Intel i3-3110M processor 2.3 GHz processor
4GB RAM
500GB hard drive
Mobile Intel HD graphics with a 15.6" screen
Windows 7 Home Premium

Toshiba Satellite L50D-AST3NX1

This Toshiba Satellite L50D laptop is a lot of computer for a current price of $480 with the following features.

AMD Quad-Core A8-5545M Accelerated Processor
8 GB RAM
1 TB hard drive
15.6" HD TruBrite screen
Weighs 5.3 lbs
The operating system is Windows 8.1

Dell Inspiron 15R

Another budget laptop is the Dell Inspiron 15R with a current price of $679 and comes with plenty of memory and the Intel i7 processor.

· Intel Core i7-4500U processor 1.8 GHz

· 8GB SDRAM

· 1TB hard drive

· 15.6 inch screen

· Weighs 7 lbs

· Windows 8

HP Pavilion 15

There are numerous models of this budget laptop with various features and prices. The lower priced HP Pavilion 15 is the 15-N028US 15" laptop with an AMD Quad Core processor for $443 currently. The other HP Pavilion 15 is the 15-e020US with a price of $528 and the following features.

Intel Core i3-3110M
4Gb RAM expandable to 8GB
750GB hard drive
Intel HD graphics
15.6" HD BrightView display
Windows 8
Weighs 5.2 lbs

Top Budget Laptops for 2014

These budget laptops should give you an idea of what is new for 2014 in affordable laptops. With many new laptops still under $500, you should be able to find a suitable laptop on a tight budget.

Top 5 Budget Laptops for 2014