They started at $1,000. Then $700 . Then $600 budget machines . Now, Qualcomm says the price of its Arm-based Windows laptops will hit $300 this year. Even though RAMageddon has yet to subside and PC prices keep climbing, the company says it’s built a new budget laptop platform called Snapdragon C — “C” as in “Compute” — to keep entry-level laptops affordable. “With Snapdragon C, we are raising the bar for what budget-conscious laptop buyers should expect,” Qualcomm senior director of product