Beware Of Laptop Sellers Counting Cloud Storage As Part Of Total Capacity

If I'm offering to sell you a laptop, and I tell you that the laptop has 1.1 TB of storage, you would likely expect that it has a 1TB SSD and perhaps another, smaller SSD. Well, don't get tricked by sketchy listings like this one that Redditor /u/bmr99 spotted on Amazon, which say "1.1TB storage," but are actually referring to a 1TB OneDrive offer included with the machine. The included on-device storage is just 128 GB.

The laptop isn't being offered by Amazon itself; it's a third-party marketplace seller going by the name of Smartisan Tech, but this is hardly the only listing. As the Redditor points out, you can search "laptop onedrive" to find many more examples, and indeed, the Reddit post includes many links to similar "deals".

To be fair to the seller, they do explicitly call out the truth in ...