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If all you need is a cheap laptop, there's thousands of deals on refurbished or used ones. You don't need this year's model to browse the web and send email.
Throw Ubuntu or something on it and you can go even cheaper hardware wise.
I have 10 year old Laptop that runs fine. It runs even finer on Linux.