Thinking of grabbing this for my son's girlfriend for graduation. She needs something for college and has very little support from her parents. Seems like a decent machine for what she needs? Thoughts???
Very light for college, a good value.
There's a Dell for $280 with more ports but heavier
Thinking of grabbing this for my son's girlfriend for graduation. She needs something for college and has very little support from her parents. Seems like a decent machine for what she needs? Thoughts???
HDMI and RJ45 started disappearing years ago, unless you consider six pound brick laptops. Almost all thin laptops are lucky to even have USB-A anymore.
Agree about HDMI and RJ45. Both too tall for inclusion with minimal real use. Use hubs/dongles/docking stations for both if (ever) they're needed.
But 2+ USB-C ports would be good and a necessity these days. Even the stingy Macbook Airs have 2. And even cheap/slim chromebooks.
USB-A is a nice touch with lots of potential uses for the foreseeable future, including slim receivers/dongles/Flash drives etc. which can never be made for USB-C given it's thinness.
Those are gaming PCs and almost all of them weigh twice what a normal laptop weighs. Most of the ones you listed ARE six pounds or more.
Maybe Dave_B's point, intentional or not, is that you/your significant other's expectations for an ultraportable is unrealistic. For example, I would love to have surface with H-class CPU and 64GB ram, but "...that ain't gonna happen".
FWIW, I have a Surface Pro 7+ when I want an easy carry and I'm doing productivity type work, BUT a more capable laptop when I need some computing umph.
FWIW, I suggest that you consider the AMD Ryzen 5 4600H model, only +$10 ($389, link below). The AMD CPU benchmarks 47% faster multi-core, PLUS has +2 CPU cores (6 AMD vs. 4 Intel). +2 cores is huge if running a Hyper-V vm. (Admittedly, 8GB RAM bottlenecks your host & guestOS (vm) performance for both; at least the AMD will give you faster computes.) Hope this helps.
Maybe Dave_B's point, intentional or not, is that you/your significant other's expectations for an ultraportable is unrealistic. For example, I would love to have surface with H-class CPU and 64GB ram, but "...that ain't gonna happen".
FWIW, I have a Surface Pro 7+ when I want an easy carry and I'm doing productivity type work, BUT a more capable laptop when I need some computing umph.
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There's a Dell for $280 with more ports but heavier
She'll betray him in college, save your money
But 2+ USB-C ports would be good and a necessity these days. Even the stingy Macbook Airs have 2. And even cheap/slim chromebooks.
USB-A is a nice touch with lots of potential uses for the foreseeable future, including slim receivers/dongles/Flash drives etc. which can never be made for USB-C given it's thinness.
FWIW, I have a Surface Pro 7+ when I want an easy carry and I'm doing productivity type work, BUT a more capable laptop when I need some computing umph.
https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-13-5-inch-Touch-Screen/dp/B09FKR5ZFN/ref=pd_day0_d_s... [amazon.com]
FWIW, I have a Surface Pro 7+ when I want an easy carry and I'm doing productivity type work, BUT a more capable laptop when I need some computing umph.
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