This laptop is Microsoft's answer to Chromebook. It similarly sleek and thin, long battery life, built-in virus protection. It is best for surfing the internet, watching YouTube or Netflix's videos, answering mail, using Skype. It is not a replacement for a gaming laptop, or a laptop where you want run complicated memory and disk intense programs like Photoshop or Video editing.
The package include the laptop and the power supply. It comes with 4GB of memory and a 64GB SSD drive (which can be upgraded to 512GB at an additional cost by the owner). The laptop comes without a manual. Even though the built drive is small, it has more space available than I expected. The operating system and pre-installed programs took only 15.7 GB (which is pretty good for Windows!) leaving 42.5 GB free to use. This laptop comes with a stripped version of Windows, but it has everything you need for doing Chromebook-like activities.
For a slim computer it has in a reasonable selection of ports, with two USB 3 ports, a display port, a USB type C port and a micro SD card reader. It has a large sensitive track pad. I prefer to use a mouse and I am using one of the USB ports for a mouse.
The keyboard is responsive and has a nice feel to it.
This laptop is 14" 1920x1080. The actual screen measurements are 12" wide and 7" high. Its weight is 2 pounds and 15.2 oz.
In my video you see some typical uses such as YouTube and Skype. Overall, it is a nice computer for the price and its usage as an internet computer.
The laptop comes without documentation. If you need to boot into BIOS you need to hit "delete" key multiple times as soon as it starts booting. To start booting from a USB stick (which you would need to do if you plan to replaces the SSD drive) you need to format the USB stick as FAT32,
and then use F7 to boot from USB stick.
This laptop has an expansion slot M.2 2242 SSD (support up to 512Gb), it can be used add an external SSD to get more storage without replacing the SSD that contains the operating system. The first photo below (the one with the door open) is the SSD compartment, all you have to do is remove one screw, open the door and put in the card. The second picture shows the latop with the back cover removed. The M.2 slot is on the bottom right just below the copper shield, the M.2 connector is clearly visible.
Here are a couple of updates after using the laptop for a while:
To create a recovery disk (needed for upgrading the SSD or just to have a backup of the operating system) you need to use a USB stick with a minimum 8G space.
The power plug on the laptop is made out of two parts. The body which is common to all countries, and prongs attachment which is specific to each country. This two part construction is not as good as a once piece power plug.This laptop has an expansion slot M.2 2242 SSD (support up to 512Gb), it can be used add an external SSD to get more storage without replacing the SSD that contains the operating system. The first photo below (the one with the door open) is the SSD compartment, all you have to do is remove one screw, open the door and put in the card. The second picture shows the latop with the back cover removed. The M.2 slot is on the bottom right just below the copper shield, the M.2 connector is clearly visible.
To create a recovery disk (needed for upgrading the SSD or just to have a backup of the operating system) you need to use a USB stick with a minimum 8G space.
I noticed that my laptop does not always charge as the prongs become loose. When the laptop drains to 7% the screen does not stay on for long, just enough to show you that it is almost out of juice.
WiFi on the laptop is not very speedy and it has no Ethernet plug. So doing updates is pretty time consuming. I found that using USB to Ethernet converter gives me better speed than WiFi.
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