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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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It's a sleek, stylish laptop that's easy to use and navigate. I'm only using it to check emails, occasional social media and maybe the occasional checking of work emails in outlook. For what I'm using it for its perfect, and I got a great price.
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This laptop is great, except the "A" button gets stuck quite a bit. Nothing that has been told to do to fix it has worked. I also did not realize that it did not have a backlight keyboard. Other than that, great product
Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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This is a basic laptop. It has low memory & is fairly slow but for the price, you get what you pay for. I only need it to play PowerPoint slide shows on a TV, and it is sufficient for that.
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I really like this computer for lightweight work. I bought it mostly to take with me to restaurants or libraries etc. because it's cheap enough I'm not worried about spilling drinks on it, or someone swiping it.
I didn't even bother trying Windows on it because Windows is not my favorite. I however did put Linux Mint 20.3 on it (non-Edge version), with encrypted LUKS storage. All the hardware is recognized out of the box, including the WiFi and Bluetooth. I reduced the amount of swappiness and switched the /tmp and /var/tmp filesystems to use the "tmpfs" to reduce the amount of churn on the eMMC storage.
There are only a few oddities so far: the keyboard occasionally will rapid-fire when you type a key. Sometimes have to restart the Bluetooth service. Also the trackpad sometimes just fails to respond. These are most likely Linux driver/firmware issues with this particular hardware most likely because it's cheap bottom feeder stuff. Sometimes "dmesg" shows some weird errors for ACPI and other subsystems. Sometimes it gets stuck in the LUKS unlock boot-up, requiring a Ctrl-Alt-Delete. But I can work with these quirks.
The battery life is PHENOMENAL, which it should be with a 6 watt CPU.
The screen is actually really good, too. And the speakers are rather good for this price-point.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
A new laptop for $199 I didnt think was possible. 5 stars for price, be prepared for slow operation, little storage and memory. Youtube videos will lag , but at $199, I'd say it you just need a laptop this is a great option.