The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience. The Unibook 304 stands out with a pretty good keyboard but a pretty bad trackpad. It looks unassuming, somewhere in the neighborhood of nondescript, offering a pretty down-the-middle clamshell PC design.

It far outstrips the port offerings of the Mac Book Neo or the new XPS 13, featuring a pair of USB-C ports, a full-size HDMI port, two 5Gbps USB 3 ports, one USB 2.0 port, a micro-SD card slot, a headphone jack, and even an Ethernet port. The M.2 2280 drive is also pretty easy to replace. Remove the 11 Philips-head screws on the bottom of the laptop, and its bottom pries up with a bit of pressure.

If you want a larger drive or just one from a better-known company, it's easy to put one in (the built-in SSD is made by "HOGE," a name that means about as much to most North Americans as "[PERSON_NAME]"). While it ships with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for an introductory price of $449, it is difficult to imagine recommending this machine to anyone other than a computer geek looking for a weird project PC. On paper, that looks pretty good, but in practice, you get what you pay for, and it falls short of matching the basics competitors offer in the same price window.