These are refurbished, but the one i got appears to be brand new, i.e. customers returns. A 15 percent discount is applied in ebay , so the final price paid is £115. The cpu is a celeron N3350, this is a dual core, but has a single core benchmark of 760 and a total benchmark of 1127. This is much better than the intel atoms or older celerons. Its single core speed that matters.
Screen is non glossy, so no reflections, its not an IPS screen , but to me its good Build quality is excellent, its got a rugged look to it, and has a big track pad. Battery life is about 9 hours, which is insane. Dont be put off by the 32gb drive, if you put in a fresh copy of windows and remove any backup partitions (dangerous) you should get about 20 gb free, then just stick a slim usb memory stick in a usb port, and use that for downloads etc.
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bitsandpcsuk
1 Aug 17#1
Argos same price but no delivery charge
lumsdot to bitsandpcsuk
1 Aug 17#2
argos=littlewoods
MBeeching
1 Aug 171#3
'Don't be put off by the 32gb drive'
Major Windows updates will fail as the installation is temporarily cloned (Window.old).
Prepare yourself for regular clean installs using the Media Creation Tool.
lumsdot
1 Aug 172#4
yes this is a laptop for someone who know what they are doing.
Set your wifi connection as Metered (in settings) this will stop automatic updates.
To update windows just download the latest windows 10 image onto a usb drive, boot from usb drive and perform update from usb stick.
Microsoft is stupid when it comes to small hard drives, there is no way the updates will fit, but it still try to download them onto your drive.
balmots
1 Aug 17#5
I got a red one yesterday £124.99 less 15% = £106.24.
Very nice with 4gb ram & 64 bit Windows 10.
Will be slapping on Linux Mint if it fits or something a bit leaner to work alongside MS.
In the old days (Win95) these small notebooks would have cost a fortune :smiley:)
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The cpu is a celeron N3350, this is a dual core, but has a single core benchmark of 760 and a total benchmark of 1127. This is much better than the intel atoms or older celerons. Its single core speed that matters.
Screen is non glossy, so no reflections, its not an IPS screen , but to me its good
Build quality is excellent, its got a rugged look to it, and has a big track pad.
Battery life is about 9 hours, which is insane.
Dont be put off by the 32gb drive, if you put in a fresh copy of windows and remove any backup partitions (dangerous) you should get about 20 gb free, then just stick a slim usb memory stick in a usb port, and use that for downloads etc.
5 comments
Major Windows updates will fail as the installation is temporarily cloned (Window.old).
Prepare yourself for regular clean installs using the Media Creation Tool.
Set your wifi connection as Metered (in settings) this will stop automatic updates.
To update windows just download the latest windows 10 image onto a usb drive, boot from usb drive and perform update from usb stick.
Microsoft is stupid when it comes to small hard drives, there is no way the updates will fit, but it still try to download them onto your drive.
Very nice with 4gb ram & 64 bit Windows 10.
Will be slapping on Linux Mint if it fits or something a bit leaner to work alongside MS.
In the old days (Win95) these small notebooks would have cost a fortune :smiley:)