There are many ultra-budget laptops below 209€ (~1000 PLN). And they are extremely slow. And I will try to justify below that the use of the word extremely is appropriate here.
You can walk into any electronics store and you will find on the shelves many laptops with processors such as Celeron N4000. Media Markt goes as far as to put one of such laptops as the first one displayed when you clock on the laptop category.
And N4000 is not the weakest you can get in new laptops. There are some Chinese brands that will sell you laptops with Celeron N3350.
To say these N-series Celerons are slow is an understatement.
Some people say: 'Relax, don't worry about the CPU performance for basic tasks, SSD is the most important, with SSD Windows 10 runs fine even on Core 2 Duo series processors".
On Core 2 Duo that may be the case. But what about Pentium 4? Because the Pentium 4 - 670 from almost 20 years ago (from 2004) is slower in many tests than the Celeron N4000.
https://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/pentium_4_670/
Of course, the N4000 has its advantages. It draws very little power, the integrated graphics are "OK", and it has various tricks up its sleeve - even Netflix in 4K runs (which is not possible on any Pentium 4 ).
But do you really want to torture yourself like this - use a laptop that is literally slower than the PC with Pentium 4 you had when you were a kid 20 years ago?
And then there's the SSD issue. Most new laptops don't have SSDs at all. They have eMMC memory. Even when the auction or product description says "SSD drive" (and for some reason, instead of sitting in prison or at least paying fines for false advertising, they earn money because apparently any EU or state authorities don't mind).
And the difference between eMMC flash and SSD flash is like the difference between a chair and an electric chair.
Here, for example, Budget-Builds Official shows the example of other weak processors Intel Atoms. Yes, they were slow, but they seemed much much slower because of the eMMC memory.
Having slow storage is bad, but having no storage is even worse. There are some new laptops that come with just 32 GB of memory. Not only will they not fit any games, programs, movies, etc. Even Windows updates won't work (Windows 10 updates of course - but Windows 11 enthusiasts need not worry - they can get 64 GB laptops and experience the same situation - updates don't work either)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/294074/cannot-update-windows-due-to-lack-of-storage-(even
Each of the above three features alone (Intel N-series processor, or their AMD A-series equivalents), eMMC memory type, or 32/64 GB memory size completely disqualifies the laptop from any comfortable everyday use.
And a lot of new laptops up to a thousand have all three of them.
There are alternatives. You can spend more, buy a used one, or perhaps get a desktop instead.
But unfortunately, those "ultra-budget" laptops below 209€ (~1000 PLN) are completely unusable.