This is a great little laptop, after a bit of tweaking. I needed something silent as a normal laptop's fan noise plays havoc with my Tinnitus and this is ideal - no fan, very little heat, crystal clear display and light weight. It was super slow to start with but changing it's performance setting from being "optimized for looks" to "optimized for speed" made a huge difference. I needed to adjust the basic font to make the words crisp and clear as performance optimization renders them pixilated but that's simple.
Initially a web page would take a few minutes to load and is now instant. I use LibreOffice and can happily do spreadsheets and type up documents and YouTube plays clear video with really nice sound.
I also modified the paging file settings so that the system now uses 16GB of the hard drive as virtual RAM and that cranked up the speed a lot too. The laptop has an empty NVMe socket built in so I added a 1TB SSD and now I have plenty of storage too. However, be aware that doing so probably voids warranty but at the price of this laptop I'm not too concerned. I chose a lower speed SSD to reduce the operating heat but even so copying 50GB from an external USB hard drive only took 10 minutes, which is fine.
All said I'm very happy I'm now able work away in peace and quiet with this laptop sitting on my bare legs without burning them and also get a days worth of use in one charge.
| Standing screen display size | 14 |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1366x768 |
| Processor | 2.8 GHz celeron |
| RAM | 4 GB DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2.8 GHz |
| Hard Drive | 64 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel UHD Graphics |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4 GB |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
