‘Borderline scam’ 1.1TB HP laptop deal on Amazon draws consumer ire, laptop has 128GB SSD and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage — ‘generous’ $499 third-party laptop deal sounds too good to be true, because it is

March 9, 2026

, By Tom’s Hardware

‘Borderline scam’ 1.1TB HP laptop deal on Amazon draws consumer ire, laptop has 128GB SSD and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage — ‘generous’ 9 third-party laptop deal sounds too good to be true, because it is

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If you’re looking for a new laptop, you’ll need to double-check the storage on those listings. A worrying new trend, spotted in recent weeks, shows that third-party sellers of popular laptop brands are marketing their laptops with terabytes of storage, despite only including a measly 128GB of physical storage capacity, with the rest made up of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage. It’s enough for it to be called a “borderline scam” by one angry commentator.

This has been rumbling on for some time, with…

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‘Borderline scam’ 1.1TB HP laptop deal on Amazon draws consumer ire, laptop has 128GB SSD and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage — ‘generous’ $499 third-party laptop deal sounds too good to be true, because it is

March 9, 2026

, Published By Tom’s Hardware

‘Borderline scam’ 1.1TB HP laptop deal on Amazon draws consumer ire, laptop has 128GB SSD and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage — ‘generous’ 9 third-party laptop deal sounds too good to be true, because it is

If you’re looking for a new laptop, you’ll need to double-check the storage on those listings. A worrying new trend, spotted in recent weeks, shows that third-party sellers of popular laptop brands are marketing their laptops with terabytes of storage, despite only including a measly 128GB of physical storage capacity, with the rest made up of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage. It’s enough for it to be called a “borderline scam” by one angry commentator.

This has been rumbling on for some time, with…

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