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I am looking for a laptop idea. It would be used as a carry most places tool when I don't want to take my main heavy work laptop. Hence small and light. Emergency look up of thing and fixing problems, remote support. It would be good if it could double as a tablet.
Requirements:
Small <12"
Good battery life.
Cheap(ish). Its not my main tool more of a backup for I don't want a £800 surface and being as it will be a take (nearly) everywhere type affair I don't want something too expensive and fragile.
Windows. Possible to run VS even if its only for checking settings or quick fixes.
Probably >= 4G RAM.
Or if someone has ideas of other solutions to the problem I am open to ideas.
There's a couple of devices like that, they'll be Celeron or Atom based, have soldered on (and small) SSD drives and more likely to be 2GB than 4GB.
They're fairly crap at anything more than browsing, but as a back up I suppose.
Have a look on Laptops Direct and click 12" and smaller, there's some refurbs and new machines that are quite cheap, but it soon leaps up to £800 if you want i3/5.
I'd spend the money on a good case rather than trying to find a tough one, they're going to be glued and sealed units for that sort of money/size so not massively tough.
My work PC is a Dell E7280, but it's just 12.5" instead of sub 12".
I liked it so much, I bough a refurb from ebay with an HD screen for home use.
https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-latitude-7280
I couldn't find anything smaller with the right combo of price/performance
not sure if its in production anymore but my work supplied lenovo thinkpad yoga (type 20C0) fits that bill. had it couple of years now and it's been great.
I've got an Asus UX305F that I got a couple of years ago and its fantastic. 13.3" screen but it weighs 1.2kg and is about 13mm thick. Cost £600. Might be worth looking into whether they still sell something similar? All solid state too with no fan so don't have to worry about dust or knocking it around when carrying about.
There’s a couple of devices like that, they’ll be Celeron or Atom based, have soldered on (and small) SSD drives and more likely to be 2GB than 4GB
This is the problem I am finding my phone is more powerful than loads of these netbooks! But not quite useable for what I need. Again as you say there is a big jump from old 2G netbooks up to 800£+ surface pro et al.
Interested in similar for monkey jnr.
Asus UX305F
I tried a mint secondhand one the other day and it was dog slow when running multiple tabs in a Chrome and some Office bits. Is your one much better than that?