Looking for a cheap tablet/ laptop

Chromebook = spy book

How tech savy are you?

Just bought my kid a used Lenovo T500 on eBay for $80 bucks. Dual core 2.54 ghz CPU with 4 gig ram and 150gb hard drive and a 15 inch screen. Swapped the drive out for a 500gb drive that I bought for $90 and it works like a champ.

Only reason I got the 500gb drive is because he needed the space for games

Don't bother with a chromebook if he's a non tech-savvy windows user. Even though it would do what he needs it to do, he'll probably end up frustrated by its limitations and not being able to do the things in the same manner to which he is accustomed. Plus, I don't know what his internet situation is like at these hunting farms, but the cheap chrome books only have about 16-32gb of internal storage. They are heavily reliant on internet connectivity for storage/productivity, which means teaching him about google drive and/or other cloud solutions. He might appreciate a laptop that can do everything he needs to do with or without internet.

He needs to get a $300 laptop and the cheapest 2.5" 250gb ssd available. Swap out his hard drive with the ssd and install windows and the laptop drivers on it. I know you know how to do that.

Just in case he has poor browsing habits, it won't run like shite in 6 months from clutter and 1000 startup programs/services. It'll be faster than he's ever seen. Other than that, I wouldn't say its "necessary." Sounds like he just needs the cheapest of cheap laptops that has enough storage that he won't have to worry about that newfangled cloud bullshite.