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I've been eyeing this
Acer Spin 1 [staples.com], the price came down (was $240 before BF) and then there is an extra $50 off coupon making the price $150 before taxes. Free shipping.
Coupon code 76987, courtesy of delz4stelz who posted a deal for the
Spin 3
Hit the
front page back in Sep for this price.
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Processor: Intel® Pentium® Silver N5000 Quad-Core (Up to 2.7GHz)
Display: 11.6" HD (1366 x 768) Widescreen LED-backlit Multi-Touch
4GB LPDDR4 Onboard Memory
Hard Drive: 64GB eMMC
Audio: Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
Built-In Digital Microphone
Ports: 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x HDMI® 2.0 port with HDCP support, 1 x 3.5mm combo jack (headphone/speaker), 1 x DC-in jack for AC adapte
Webcam: Webcam (640 x 480)
Wireless: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 802.11ac Gigabit WiFi which can deliver up to 1.73Gbps throughput when using 160Mhz channels (Dual-Band 2.4GHz and 5GHz)
Up to 10 Hours Battery Life
Bluetooth 5.0
Dimensions: 11.46" (W) x 7.95" (D) x 0.67" (H)
Weight: 2.76 lbs
Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 605 supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 12
Windows 10 in S Mode
One-year International Travelers Limited Warranty
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It has been exceptional for my use case. I am a writer and my daughter had dumped a bottle of bubbles on my daily driver laptop. This is my cheap beater. I bought it, opted into regular windows, installed my writing programs that I needed, and it has been nothing but a workhorse since. I know word processing is very much not a power user case. I flip through a dozen browser tabs at a time too for research. But I'm not doing anything crazy like video encoding.
The screen is kind of a bummer. You can visually see how much it sucks compared to a $1,000 laptop - washed out, lower resolution, etc. The build quality is very much cheap plastic, though it seems like it will take a beating a lot better than my $1,000 Lenovo which gets dinged if you breathe on it.
The battery life is spectacular. Literally lasts all day, and then some. Compare it with my Lenovo, which was made so thin and light that the battery only lasts about 4 hours.
This thing may be a cheap beater, but it is the best cheap beater I have ever bought. I like it so much that I almost brought it with me to the other side of the world for a three week vacation instead of the Lenovo. I brought the more powerful laptop instead, plus two battery packs, but it was close.
I mainly use it for school, YouTube, google docs, slides etc and it's fine. I opted into windows 10 home permanently. The screen is the only downer, battery is around 6 hours real world use at 75% performance surfing the net watching YouTube.
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Add a 256GB SD Card, and you are all set.
My 15+ years old lappy had a similar score [cpubenchmark.net] (Core2 something), it was slow.
she only uses it for youtube / email / etc, basically chromebook level activities but didn't want to learn chrome OS...
i don't think anyone looking at this is expecting a powerhouse, it's a good price for what it is though.
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Coupon code 76987, courtesy of delz4stelz who posted a deal for the Spin 3
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Processor: Intel® Pentium® Silver N5000 Quad-Core (Up to 2.7GHz)
Display: 11.6" HD (1366 x 768) Widescreen LED-backlit Multi-Touch
4GB LPDDR4 Onboard Memory
Hard Drive: 64GB eMMC
Audio: Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
Built-In Digital Microphone
Ports: 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x HDMI® 2.0 port with HDCP support, 1 x 3.5mm combo jack (headphone/speaker), 1 x DC-in jack for AC adapte
Webcam: Webcam (640 x 480)
Wireless: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 802.11ac Gigabit WiFi which can deliver up to 1.73Gbps throughput when using 160Mhz channels (Dual-Band 2.4GHz and 5GHz)
Up to 10 Hours Battery Life
Bluetooth 5.0
Dimensions: 11.46" (W) x 7.95" (D) x 0.67" (H)
Weight: 2.76 lbs
Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 605 supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 12
Windows 10 in S Mode
One-year International Travelers Limited Warranty
I got the Best Buy Acer Spin 11 deal for $220. Seems the same but this Spin 1 has twice the memory 32 vs 64 and a better processor N3350 vs N5000.
I know the Spin 11 is "tough" and meant for kids and schools. Is there anything I am missing?
can always return later.
I mainly use it for school, YouTube, google docs, slides etc and it's fine. I opted into windows 10 home permanently. The screen is the only downer, battery is around 6 hours real world use at 75% performance surfing the net watching YouTube.