The Budget Laptops during 2007-2010 are now replaced by Smartphones, Tablets & Chromebooks. No one now is interested to carry around a thick notebook that used to have limited applications than that of smartphones having extended functionality and sleek designs.
NO. As Asus is once again up with its best bang for buck EeeBook X205TA budget notebook which is priced pretty sweet under $200 or 15k price.Find out why it is too good to be true:-
- Featuring Windows 8.1 it is unbelievably slim & light weighing (just 980g) & elegantly designed offering tactile matte finish & rounded edges with incredible built quality.
- Packed with HD LED Backlit display and excellent resolution of 1366x768 with 11.6 inch screen offering adequate level of brightess makes the display crisp.
- Intel Quad Core (4th gen) Atom Z3735 CPU featuring clock speed of 1.33 GHz with turbo boost upto 1.83 GHz and 2GB DDR3 of RAM facilitates smooth every day computing & multi tasking.
- Equipped dual front facing speakers offers quite a decent sound.
- The 2 cell battery is leading the charge compared with its all other specification, providing nearly 11 hours of battery life, though Asus claims it to be 12 hours but its depends according to use.
- The Intel HD Graphics Processor is OK for casual games like Minecraft & watching HD Movies.
- Touchpad is quite large with multi touch gesture support.
- Comes with Bluetooth v4.0, Wireless LAN 802.11agn, 2-in-1 Card Reader, MICRO HDMI Slot, Dual USB 2.0(sorry no USB 3.0),VGA webcam, built in Microphone.
Other Features :-
- Fanless design makes it noiseless,keeps it as slim as 17.5 mm, consumes less power.
- The power adapter is also very compact and quite similar to smartphone charger.
- Comes with 1 year free subscription of MS Office 365 & Web Storage.
- Intel Atom processor ensures decent MS Office & good Browsing experience along with being low voltage processor definitely saves lot of battery.
- Camera quality is satisfactory, at least under this price tag.
FLAWS:-
- No USB 3.0.
- Best suited for Every Day Tasks & extremely helpful for students & business Purposes but never for gamers or graphics intensive video editors.
- HDD capacity is only up to 32 GB EMMC(Embedded Multi Media Card, this form of flash for main storage is generally used by tablets).
- RAM is NOT UPGRADABLE.
- Speakers quality is not so fine but can definitely be considered.
Bottom line
Best possible specs without compromising the built quality & generously delivering decent computing experience for an aggressive low price.
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