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So when I was planning for what to get for a secondary laptop, I decided to get an Asus T100tal at carrefour for 200$ since I liked the idea that my laptop was also my tablet, and it was of great use for me... until a few days when the touchscreen broke and died, and I acted like a complete redneck and disassembled this thing while the battery was still connected in an attempt to salvage the digitizer and the display backlight broke. Now I am looking for this as a chance to upgrade to something better while having a similar budget friendly price. So far I have two options, getting the same laptop again, or going with https://pcandparts.com/hp-laptop-x2-10-p001ne/
personally i wouldn't recommend hp, my experience with this brand is "hot". For some reason they overheat and the fan goes crazy, this was couple of years to 5 years ago though I don't know how it is like now.
I know you're looking for a convertable but did you consider an ipad? These things are sturdy and for 300$ it' really a bargain. I've been using the same for the last 6 years, battery is amazing, now if this doesn't do the job for you and you need windows environment that's something else.
Some kind of Chromebook, I guess?
Regarding HP this sounds like an over-generalisation, It depends on your configuration, I you max it out - GPU, i7, etc, then it might happen, depending on the model.
I have a desktop computer with fair specs(i5-7400, gtx1060-6gb, 8gb RAM 1tb hard drive), as for why windows, I prefer having full file access, Android is a joke on tablets, I hate the aspect ratio of iPads, and I need display over a wire ,I already invested in a microHDMI to HDMI to VGA adapter, and I don't some janky solutions to use a USB drive over Lightning and I don't want to invest into something like a surface pro or surface book for that matter
NuclearVision wrotepersonally i wouldn't recommend hp, my experience with this brand is "hot". For some reason they overheat and the fan goes crazy, this was couple of years to 5 years ago though I don't know how it is like now.
I know you're looking for a convertable but did you consider an ipad? These things are sturdy and for 300$ it' really a bargain. I've been using the same for the last 6 years, battery is amazing, now if this doesn't do the job for you and you need windows environment that's something else.
The HP I Linked has no moving parts and a 2W Intel Atom cherry trail processor, so no heating issues here, I should note that HP notebooks ( and other cheap notebooks) using Intel core processors or powerful AMD parts will eventually heat up if you don't cap the CPU in power management
Someone had this very small laptop that cost $100. It had 32GB SDD, and Windows 10, which took like 20 of the 32GB.
Now that is a joke.
My hp laptops made fan noise with light office usage, browsing. To date, I thought hp overheating was common knowledge. Now if the netbook doesn't have a fan assuming the chip doesn't heat, it should be ok.
rolf wroteSomeone had this very small laptop that cost $100. It had 32GB SDD, and Windows 10, which took like 20 of the 32GB.
Now that is a joke.
Again, I have a desktop PC with around 1tb storage so that doesn't bother me, if I want a file on it, just use the local WiFi. As for 20gb out of 32gb used, come on, he either used windows 10 home or pro/Enterprise. I used windows 10 ltsb and it worked like a charm and was able to fit 10-11gb of data
ap4ss3rby wrote
rolf wroteSomeone had this very small laptop that cost $100. It had 32GB SDD, and Windows 10, which took like 20 of the 32GB.
Now that is a joke.
Again, I have a desktop PC with around 1tb storage so that doesn't bother me, if I want a file on it, just use the local WiFi. As for 20gb out of 32gb used, come on, he either used windows 10 home or pro/Enterprise. I used windows 10 ltsb and it worked like a charm and was able to fit 10-11gb of data
It was the licensed preinstalled OS that came on the machine. I am not sure which version it was.
If you can do things like install another "cracked" OS on the machine, then you can root an android device and access your files, I guess.
I assumed you did not want to do any of that.
Anyway, to each his own!