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Asus X553MA-BING-SX472B (Win8) (Notebook 15,6 Celeron N2840 500GB 2GB) EUR 84,00 (17 Gebote)Angebotsende: Freitag Mär-25-2016 11:27:54 CETJetzt bieten | Zur Liste der beobachteten Artikel hinzufügen View full post on

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NewestLenovo Ideapad 100 Signature Edition Laptop n2840 4gb 500gb Display 15.6 in HD LED (1366 x 768) Processor Intel Celeron N2840 2.16 GHz with Intel Burst Technology up to 2.58 GHz…

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Lenovo YOGA 300-11IBY schwarz 2in1 Notebook N2840 Windows 10 EUR 269,00Angebotsende: Donnerstag Mär-10-2016 14:05:12 CETSofort-Kaufen für nur: EUR 269,00Sofort-Kaufen | Zur Liste der beobachteten Artikel hinzufügen View full post on

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Asus X200MA-BING-KX672B - 2GB - Intel N2840 - 11.6" - Putih

Asus X200MA-BING-KX672B – 2GB – Intel N2840 – 11.6″ – Putih

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ASUS X453MA-WX217D - 2GB - Intel N2840 - 14" - Putih

ASUS X453MA-WX217D – 2GB – Intel N2840 – 14″ – Putih

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Acer Aspire Es1-111-C3NT

I voided the warranty of this laptop not even within a week of using it. See, I bought this laptop with the intention of installing Linux on it--speciflcally: Manjaro. But, I thought I'd try Ubuntu first.

First off, I like the keyboard. Call them 'chiclet' style or 'island' style, I got used to the keys after spending a short time typing on them. Now, I am used to full sized keyboards and love numpads to death, but the keys on this laptop took just a little bit getting used to, and within days, I was quickly typing away.

At first, I thought the lack of buttons on the touchpad would sting, but boy was I wrong. Double finger taps and slides work nicely. Tapping and clicking work as intended. No complaints here. For a 11.6 inch laptop, the touchpad is a comfortable size and a joy to use.

I'm glad Insert, Delete, Pgup, Pgdown, Home and End keys are available even if you have to use the Fn key to activate Home and End. I use these keys and can't live without them.

Now, on to the bad.

With only 2GB of RAM, the system feels sluggish and woefully inadequate at handling tasks. Granted, this was my first time using Windows 8.1 since my trip from 98 > XP > Vista, but boy was this machine struggling at times to keep up.

The N2840 Dual Core processor won't be winning any awards any time soon but fire off a few tabs in Chrome, listen to music on YouTube and watch performance plummet.

Maybe I'm an idiot. But I couldn't exactly pinpoint what was causing disk activity to hit 100%. Was it the HDD slowing things down due to excessive and constant read/write operations? Or, was it the underpowered system from the get go?

Now, I am looking forward to throwing in an 8GB stick of RAM and swapping out the HDD for a SSD drive. As much as I'd love to use Windows 8.1 as my daily driver, and, also use the Acer Aspire ES1 while retiring my old HP laptop (which still works -- though it lags at times), I'm having second thoughts on Windows 8.1 (with Bing).

I've not spent enough time with the Metro Interface, but I don't like it nor dislike it enough to wish it away. 

I'm going to either install Manjaro eventually, but will give Ubuntu 14.10 a try first, right after getting a SSD.