Pretty Meh, Eh?

A for-real, non-Chromebook laptop for the price of a Manhattan parking ticket? Whats the catch?Well, there are several catches. But dont think of them as “catches,” think of them as catch-ortunities. Because remember: We wouldnt be able to sell them at this price if there weren’t a few.Catch: It has a Canadian keyboard (picture in link). Were not totally sure what this means, or why it includes a symbol, but the layout is a bit different.Catch-ortunity: Dip your toes in the moving to Canada waters. Were not going to get political, but if you have umm read the news, you may have formed the opinion that this country is going to hell in a autocracy basket. And, Ill-advised games of dress-up aside, Canada still looks like an attractive alternative. But can you handle the culture shock, starting with the keyboards? Heres one way to find out.Catch: Its Blue AF. The pictures are not oversaturated. If anything, they downplay the blueness.Catch-ortunity: Give the baristas something to help them remember you by. I have been going to the same coffee shop to write for months, and the baristas are only just now beginning to recognize me and my complex order (a coffee, for here). It makes sense they can’t identify me, because every patron including myself is wearing the same hipster uniform 10 oclock shadow, cuffed jeans, AllBirds, and gray laptop. Showing up with this exceedingly blue-hued laptop would earn you an instant spot in the baristas’ limited memory.Catch: Speaking of limited memory, this laptop (like all HPs, as far as we can tell) is full of bloatware that takes up a goodly bit of hard drive space.Catch-ortunity: You can learn more about computers as you root through directories and delete folders until something breaks. Its like a crash-course (literally) in the Windows operating system!See? We dont sell products with obvious problems. We sell products with obvious problem-solving potential.