There are ways to get cheap laptops if you start looking for offers around your locality or a nearby town or even on the internet.
The internet is full of offers these days and most of the companies come up with some promotional offers such as offering free laptops for the first 100 applicants or even sending promotional email campaigns in which people need to introduce the product to a minimum of ten to twenty friends make them sign up for the newsletters.
As the network builds on, the user qualifies to win a laptop.
But this is bound to happen only by luck or chance.
But there are other ways of availing cheap laptops if not absolutely free.
You can not only buy cheap laptops but also purchase cheap spare components for upgrading the system.
It is hardly possible to buy a brand new laptop for half the price, I mean brand new ones cost you a minimum of $3000.
You can check online sites like eBay which come up with great deals and deductions time and again.
But if you want to benefit from learning, you can join some courses with the university and benefit some schemes.
There are plans which offer free laptops for students also, especially the ones involved in research.
Some manufacturers offer subsidized prices for students by striking a deal with universities and colleges, and students can purchase those laptops with their saved up income from part-time jobs.
You can even show your student card or income status in case it's below the poverty line, and avail laptops from those shops which are basically for people living on social benefit from the government.
These shops accept used laptops which are sold to them, and the technician upgrades it and sells it further for a very good affordable price.