New laptop needed

[Pants]

Thanks for the replies guys. Interesting. Keep them coming.

Seems generally a for Chromebooks.

Greig. That Asus Ryzen in your link looks very interesting but "membrane keyboard"? Not going back to my ZX80 days surely.

 

[GreiginFife]

Thanks for the replies guys. Interesting. Keep them coming.

Seems generally a for Chromebooks.

Greig. That Asus Ryzen in your link looks very interesting but "membrane keyboard"? Not going back to my ZX80 days surely.

Yeah there’s a load of them going that way. Claims that it improves durability. Reality is it’s cheaper to manufacture.

But bang for buck on that laptop will be hard to beat. 7th gen processor, DDR5 5500MHz RAM and a 512Gb NVMe drive for under £350.

Tempted to buy one as a work spare.

 

[GreiginFife]

Samsung with the fantastic Core i3-1315U for the same price. You lose a little HDD space and the memory is DDR4 but the processor packs more punch.

Maybe a little overkill for streaming and emails but more is less in this case.

 

[Taz]

Any views of this in a Chromebook?

Rockstar RK3399 Processor
- Dual-core

 

[GreiginFife]

Any views of this in a Chromebook?

Rockstar RK3399 Processor
- Dual-core

Do you mean RockChip?

 

[Taz]

Do you mean RockChip?

I'll check , but it was cut straight from the Currys/Asus spec.

 

[Taz]

I'll check , but it was cut straight from the Currys/Asus spec.

ASUS C101P Chromebook features a powerful Rockchip RK3399 Quad-Core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 16GB eMMC storage drive, giving you the power and ...

 

[GreiginFife]

ASUS C101P Chromebook features a powerful Rockchip RK3399 Quad-Core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 16GB eMMC storage drive, giving you the power and ...

Terrible spec. The RockChips are all built on ARM architecture afaik (so mainly small device solutions like phones and tablets).

Avoid eMMC at all costs and 16GB is going to be pretty much killed by OS and bloatware from the off.

RK3399 is an odd one from what I've read, it's a quad-core secondary and a dual core primary. Not quite sure how that works.

But personally I'd avoid that machine. 4GB of RAM and eMMC is a disaster.

 

[Taz]

Terrible spec. The RockChips are all built on ARM architecture afaik (so mainly small device solutions like phones and tablets).

Avoid eMMC at all costs and 16GB is going to be pretty much killed by OS and bloatware from the off.

RK3399 is an odd one from what I've read, it's a quad-core secondary and a dual core primary. Not quite sure how that works.

But personally I'd avoid that machine. 4GB of RAM and eMMC is a disaster.

After a small device (10/11 inch screen) so HID can do her zoom classes in the cabin.
Currently using my 8 inch tablet.

 

[Taz]

Next model up.

Technical specifications for ASUS CX1 11.6" 2 in 1 Chromebook - Intel® Celeron®, 64 GB eMMC, Silver
OVERVIEW
Type
2 in 1 Chromebook
Operating system
ChromeOS
RAM
4 GB LPDDR4X
Processor
- Intel® Celeron® N4500 Processor
- Dual-core
- 1.1 GHz / 2.8 GHz
- 4 MB cache
Storage
64 GB eMMC

 

[GreiginFife]

That is why. The N4xxx series are possibly the worst processors with the exception of the Atom ones from mid 2010s.

Probably coupled with eMMC storage, total disaster.

I'll refer back to this post on this thread regarding the Celeron processors. Possibly the worst CPUs ever produced.

And as I said above, I would be avoiding eMMC storage, especially coupled with 4GB of RAM, it will be slower than a week in the jail.

 

[Taz]

I'll refer back to this post on this thread regarding the Celeron processors. Possibly the worst CPUs ever produced.

And as I said above, I would be avoiding eMMC storage, especially coupled with 4GB of RAM, it will be slower than a week in the jail.

Thanks.
I have a read back through this thread

 

[rudebhoy]

When I retired 10 years ago, I bought 2 MacBook Airs, one for the daughter’s school and Uni work, the other for me.

Both are still going strong. Every Windows laptop I had previously lasted about 3 years before dying a slow death.

Unless you are wanting to do some really heavy duty stuff, I’d recommend spending a bit extra and going for a MacBook.

 

[RichA]

MrsA needs a new laptop. Mostly MS Office and browser based stuff for her work. It won’t be used for video watching, gaming or anything too heavy duty but it needs to be able to handle her default 89 open applications and browser tabs.
Any of you computer guys have an opinion on this please…

Asus Vivobook S14

• CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 260 8 Core-Processor
• Memory: 16GB DDR5 RAM
• Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
• Screen: 14 in WUXGA IPS Screen
• GPU: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
• OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-bit

I know it’s the cheaper screen but, for reasons I don’t fully understand, she doesn’t like OLED.

 

[GreiginFife]

MrsA needs a new laptop. Mostly MS Office and browser based stuff for her work. It won’t be used for video watching, gaming or anything too heavy duty but it needs to be able to handle her default 89 open applications and browser tabs.
Any of you computer guys have an opinion on this please…

Asus Vivobook S14

• CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 260 8 Core-Processor
• Memory: 16GB DDR5 RAM
• Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
• Screen: 14 in WUXGA IPS Screen
• GPU: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
• OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-bit

I know it’s the cheaper screen but, for reasons I don’t fully understand, she doesn’t like OLED.

Processor is overkill as the RAM will handle most of the browser heavy lifting. But if it’s a decent price then that’s a good specced laptop.

 

[RichA]

Processor is overkill as the RAM will handle most of the browser heavy lifting. But if it’s a decent price then that’s a good specced laptop.

Thanks Greig. £650 at the moment.

 

[GreiginFife]

Not bad, there are cheaper deals with maybe a 6 core processor. But if £650 is in budget then it’s decent.