@cengland0 Your cell phone has much better resolution than my cell phone (an old Nexus 5 with 1080x1920, it seemed impressive back in the day). And my old cell phone has a much better screen resolution than this thing.
Your cell phone’s graphics are 2 generations better than this device.
@AlexisB God no. Integrated graphics are the kiss of death. (They will be called Intel HD #####). What you want is something with a mobile graphics card from Nvidia or similar. Also, you want 6 or 8 gigs of ram. Four GB in this day and age is paltry. I have 16 in my laptop. And lastly, you want your CPU to run faster than just 2 gigahertz. That’s very much a mobile processor to fit inside the tablet form factor.
@AlexisB HD 5300. Not too shabby. I mean if by gaming you mean anything ‘new’ then not really. But despite all the shit people give integrated intel graphics, they’re not too bad. They’re not supposed to compete with aib cards. All in all, for gaming, I’d say no, the 6xxx series is competent at least (not great).
Tl;dr; most games pre 2013 run well enough on low. Minus things like Crysis and Far cry. (also don’t take these benchmarks too seriously. It says skyrim runs worse than it does on my surface with a 4200. But such is the nature of benchmarks and hardware)
If you just wanna play dota/star craft or bridge constructor or something simple like those, it’s perfectly fine.
@communist TBH i disagree. For “real gaming” you are right, but honestly other than the very demanding games you can play most anything on the Intel 4000 hd and up. Obviously settings will be very low, but it’ll be playable.
@MehnofLaMehncha Does anyone ever answer with a joinder rather than a rejoinder? If you revise something you wrote, didn’t you have to vise it first? Can you eat in a fectory? Can you flect on something before you reflect? Can you have good flexes? Is an new schedule a gimen? Can commerce be gulated? Is the first run-through of a play a hearsal? If you are almost, but not quite pitiless, are you lentless? If you are only somewhat resistant (sistant) about doing something, are you just luctant?
Your question has opened up a literary can of worms. Anyone know who canned the worms in the first place?
I was just mother f-ing my Acer laptop tonight. The mouse pad and pointet just vanished and stopped working. I did all the normal things to try to get them back on but then an hour later I just turned it on and off and it worked.
So I told myself, the next time I see a refurbished PC or tablet combo, I will buy one, if two qualifications are met. It has to be at least 1080p and it has to be sub $300. I found some contenders via other methods, but I was sure meh would come through for me. Alas, today’s listing makes me wish I bought that microsoft surface a while back…
@mehdaf those were the good old days. I had gone all the way through buying that Surface then I cancelled the order. I must have had one of the last ones because it was sold out a minute later. You’re welcome, whoever got my Surface!
@mehdaf Yeah, sorry to rub salt in it, but I absolutely frickin’ LOVE the Surface I got from Meh. Yeah, I sunk a lot of money for it, but I’m so much more productive now.
@mehdaf about that. That particular meh was mislabled. What we got were the i5 pro2s with 256gb at the option of a discount. (Special resell) Plus side is that the one I managed to snag had the newer 4300u chip.
@mehdaf it went for the same price. But they gave out a code for 50$ off any future meh order including that one. It only applied to the accounts that placed an order on that particular surface deal.
@synasoft i have not referred to any documentation but I’d put my money on no. Tablets aren’t modular like pcs or laptops, with so much stuff crammed into so little space they really can’t be.
@synasoft … That’s what pisses my off, they never say whether it’s expandable nor how much. We can only assume since it’s a 64 bit but sometimes that turns out to be a disappointment… Another down fall is its only a duel core… not a terrible let down but with the Octa-Core just around the corner it makes for a sure dinosaur in record time.
@synasoft@djslack The LPDDR3 RAM is soldered in. On the plus side, that means it doesn’t need as much power as socketed memory, so it runs cooler, and the battery lasts longer. It also means one less hole in the case, so the product is more reliable (but as @cranky1950 points out, it is still an Acer).
There are trade offs when engineering a RAM interface. High performance graphics RAM is also often soldered on. In that case, they typically engineer for higher speed. They get higher RAM bandwidth than socketed CPU memory of the same hardware generation, but no significant power savings.
On the topic of Acer quality… I haven’t dealt with an Acer recently, so maybe they are better now. When I dealt with used laptops on a regular basis from 2008 to 2010, Acer Group products were the worst. The Acer Group uses the brands Acer, Packard Bell, and Gateway. It also used the brandname eMachines until 2013. It kept some of the worst features of each company with each new merger and acquisition. Acer stopped using the eMachines brand in 2013.
@djslack
I just took apart the keyboard dock on the 11 V for this offer and it looks like the SATA controller chip and the SATA connector are NOT Populated on the PCB in the dock. So it’s not just as simple as buying the right cable as it was for the 11 (no V) to add a SATA drive to the base.
The mounting hardware for the drive is there, but no chips and connectors soldered onto the board.
On the good side:
Big SSD
Convertible to a tablet
OK battery life
IPS screen should look pretty good and the low resolution should help compensate for the slow graphics.
CHEAP
USB3 port.
On the bad side:
Sloooooooooooowwwwww. Like 2010 slow.
Low resolution screen.
Slow graphics.
@rrkappes well SLLOOOW compared to a desktop, but quite fast compared to most bargain tables/convertables. Its got the recent Core M-5Y10C…look it up, for fanless it flies. Not for gamers, but it should display my powerpoints and do office docks/interwebs just fine. The CPU is the most advanced thing on it. For a fanless low power tablet that is.
@Dizavid if you could let go of the snotty end of your fuckstick long enough to Google up some information, you would find this processor is a low wattage high efficiency processor that does more operations per cycle , a different architecture all together. It also can turbo boost to like 2ghz , yeah not MHz. You should be comparing benchmarks not processor speeds.
@Dizavid the display does suck (as I mentioned later). This isn’t a gaming machine, but the core m gpu will easily support higher resolution playing some games, office type apps, image editing and about 99% of what most people do 99% of the time on a PC, while sipping fucking battery power. The thing you need to be concerned about is that when it comes to watching gay, straight, and trans porn you will be able to Marathon masturbate without taking up an outlet, which you can clearly reserve for the vibrating dildo you stick up your ass. In the case of porn viewing, the shitty display might be an advantage, the anal warts aren’t nearly as pronounced and the scars from the botched tit jobs are a little smoother.
This looks like a rather interesting deal, but I’m torn between this Acer and a refurbished Dell Venue 11 Pro T07G with Core I5-4300Y processor. The Dell costs about one hundred dollars more and the keyboard is a separate item which adds at least another hundred to the price.
I honestly don’t know if this is a worthwhile compromise. I’m looking to replace my aging netbook (HP 11 inch laptop with an AMD E-350 processor) with something that I can use as both a laptop and a tablet. I won’t be doing any gaming on it, just MS Office, web browsing and maybe the occasional YouTube video or Netflix marathon session. (I tried an HP Slate 8 inch with an Atom processor. That thing was dead slow and the included RAM was a joke.)
@TheTexasTwister So that Dell is double the money basically. Much beefier specs, but for the things you mentioned wanting to do, this is plenty and more powerful than your old netbook. I’d go with this one if not being 1080p doesn’t irk you.
I fscking FORBID you from offering laptops with this barrel-scraping resolution. This panel size should never have existed in the first place, much less lasted nearly ten years in the market. This is an industry joke that needs to be drowned in the bathtub.
I thought constantly offering Bluetooth speakers was an insultingly colossal waste of your precious sales space, but now I see where my true antipathy lies. That Other Site offers laptops with this excremental resolution – always described (sarcastically, one must presume) as providing “stunning clarity” – every ${GOD}-damned day. And maybe if, like them, you were to daily offer 6900 different things that you can’t meaningfully search through, you could get away with that. But you’ve got only the one slot, and what’s placed there should count.
Yes, it’s only an 11" panel and, at that dimension, it’s barely acceptable. But for the love of ${GOD} and all that is holy, please make this an exception rather than a rule. If the panel is 13" diagonal or larger, it must be at least FHD (1080p) or better, or it should not be offered to the market.
@ewhac You are preaching to the choir. While I’ve accepted the lower resolutions on smaller tablets and laptops as a necessary evil for the lower cost, they often times cause me eyestrain that my older fifteen inch laptop with a full HD screen does not. (Of course, that old thing also has an aging Turion dual core CPU and it can get bogged down pretty quick.)
@ewhac I stated the same sort of thing above by mentioning that modern cell phones with much smaller screens have better resolution. A computer is supposed to have better resolution than a tablet or a phone and this model is way off. Certainly a deal breaker for me.
Bottom line is 1366x768 resolution is for bitches. This is not meant as a sexist comment, because there are plenty of men that fall in that category, and plenty of women who do not. Bottom line is, if you use that resolution you’re basically a bitch.
@gak0090 I do not understand that segment of the pc market, every manufacturer makes them but they are the computer equivalent of a Renault LeCar. 1080 should be a minimum today. The only exception I’ll make to that is my Amazon Fire gets by with 1024 x 600 only because of the $40 price point, and the 6" screen. (Yes they are now $50, but they had some promotional pricing early on).
@mehdaf I bought an Amazon Fire HD for $40 at a Radio Shack store that was closing. It died in less than 3 weeks and since the store was closed Amazon sent me a brand new HDX model that has a 1920 x 1200 display. Love it. I agree 1080p should be a minimum.
I am just looking for something for writing, research, and Internet work. The price point is great, but not if it is going to just crap out on me all the time.
This is a good deal for a nice 2in1. The only thing I hate about it is the resolution is 1366x768. I am a complete pixel whore. Now, even at this shitty (somewhat standard) resolution, the price is low enough, and the other features are strong enough, to make this a great buy for someone looking at the this compact 2in1 form factor. Let me paraphrase, this is like a really hot chick with B cups(1366x768). You would still bang her (and enjoy it), but she’d be a lot more appealing with DDs(quad HD).
Meh? You will hate the track pad on this thing. I saw the complaints when I bought mine last year…I concur, the track pad is so slick it doesn’t always register your finger…unless you have the sweaty sticky type. I have to frequently wet the finger to make it work. Also my Micro SD port keeps acting like I just put in a new card every minute or 2.(this is a new problem), even after switching to another sd card. When it sees a card it opens a explorer window…every time every minute or 2. The rest of the computer is great…screen, speed behavior. But without the sd card working, I lose my extra 32gb’s. Time for a new one… Buy at your own risk…
Oh, and to the verbally abuse Screen hater …the screen is fine…no one cares or can tell how “barely acceptable” it (supposedly) is. It works good, looks good. My complaints don’t lie with the screen.
My main issue is with Windows 10. I have two laptops with Windows 10 (both started with and they have 4gb ram and both are decent enough fast. Upgrading one from 8 to 10 nearly broke it. The problem is both drop connections to wireless internet. It’s really annoying my router is a good Netgear AC and my old Windows XP desktop with a Belkin dongle stays connected just fine (also my Nintendo 3DS, Roku, Wii U). So I end up using my old desktop and my iPad mini 2 to do almost everything and they just collect dust. Oh I’ve also updated all the drivers and in some cases I think that made it worse.
The M-5Y10c in this tablet is about on par with the i3-3217u in my old Acer tablet from 2012. Main difference is that it uses less than half the power of that i3 and doesn’t have an annoying fan. My old tablet is 1080p though so I can’t justify $220 for what’s essentially a performance sidegrade.
Just needed to vent a bit because it’s taking a WEEK for the computer to ship from Texas to San Diego with Smartpost. $5.00 for 3 flashlights, I can understand shipping it via smartpost… but a $220 computer???
I’m an impatient puppy.
Specs
Condition: Refurbished
Warranty: 90 Day Acer
Estimated Delivery: 6/27 - 6/30
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Acer Tablet PC
1x Power supply
Pictures
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Price Comparison
$389.99 List $349.99 at Acer Recertified
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Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, February 11th - Friday, February 15th
/giphy meh
Mehness
My cell phone has a better resolution than this thing.
1440 x 2560 pixels for my Samsung Note 5.
@cengland0 Your cell phone has much better resolution than my cell phone (an old Nexus 5 with 1080x1920, it seemed impressive back in the day). And my old cell phone has a much better screen resolution than this thing.
Your cell phone’s graphics are 2 generations better than this device.
@cengland0 your cellphone is the best in the world. Go Note 5. Your cellphone is so good.
@cengland0 i love your cellphone so much. Im…your…cellphone…in…love…
@usbank I guess it’s pretty cute from the pics I found on the internet
@cengland0 Your cell phone, off contract, probably also costs twice what this thing does, to be fair. Not that I’m buying this thing, 1080p or bust.
@vanslaterco Indeed…it’s so adorable to the point I have to be really gentle with it…
@Ringold great point. A Note 5 would be ‘more’ than triple the cost without a contract. But this screen does suck.
Gaming? Yay or meh?
@AlexisB HELL NAY
if you want to do anything more than minecraft you should get a laptop with dedicated graphics card
@AlexisB
Depends on the game.
Chuck it in the air, makes for a good clay pigeon.
Also could be used as second base.
Starting block for 100m freestyle?
Tiddly, yes. Wink, not so much.
@AlexisB God no. Integrated graphics are the kiss of death. (They will be called Intel HD #####). What you want is something with a mobile graphics card from Nvidia or similar. Also, you want 6 or 8 gigs of ram. Four GB in this day and age is paltry. I have 16 in my laptop. And lastly, you want your CPU to run faster than just 2 gigahertz. That’s very much a mobile processor to fit inside the tablet form factor.
@AlexisB HD 5300. Not too shabby. I mean if by gaming you mean anything ‘new’ then not really. But despite all the shit people give integrated intel graphics, they’re not too bad. They’re not supposed to compete with aib cards. All in all, for gaming, I’d say no, the 6xxx series is competent at least (not great).
Here are some benchmarks for the 5300 http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5300.125576.0.html
Tl;dr; most games pre 2013 run well enough on low. Minus things like Crysis and Far cry. (also don’t take these benchmarks too seriously. It says skyrim runs worse than it does on my surface with a 4200. But such is the nature of benchmarks and hardware)
If you just wanna play dota/star craft or bridge constructor or something simple like those, it’s perfectly fine.
@communist TBH i disagree. For “real gaming” you are right, but honestly other than the very demanding games you can play most anything on the Intel 4000 hd and up. Obviously settings will be very low, but it’ll be playable.
@AlexisB Buy an Xbox One on fire sale (seriously, some bundles are starting to go for less than 200) and stream it to this.
Y’all ever sell any plain ol’ furbished ones?
If you carry an umbrella for inclement weather, what do you do when it’s clement outside?
@MehnofLaMehncha My electronics are all pre-furbished.
@MehnofLaMehncha I spend lots of time refragging mine.
@MehnofLaMehncha When it’s clement outside, I invite him in. How rude to just let him stand there. Where are your manners?
@MehnofLaMehncha Does anyone ever answer with a joinder rather than a rejoinder? If you revise something you wrote, didn’t you have to vise it first? Can you eat in a fectory? Can you flect on something before you reflect? Can you have good flexes? Is an new schedule a gimen? Can commerce be gulated? Is the first run-through of a play a hearsal? If you are almost, but not quite pitiless, are you lentless? If you are only somewhat resistant (sistant) about doing something, are you just luctant?
Your question has opened up a literary can of worms. Anyone know who canned the worms in the first place?
@rockblossom Too much to think about on a lazy Saturday morning.
Can an item be defurbished?
@MehnofLaMehncha Like a vorced marriage?
If a product consistently needs to be refurbished, then Six Sigma should be able to achieve 99.99990% anti-furbishization.
@MehnofLaMehncha it’s a re-furby!
Meh
I was just mother f-ing my Acer laptop tonight. The mouse pad and pointet just vanished and stopped working. I did all the normal things to try to get them back on but then an hour later I just turned it on and off and it worked.
@somf69
The infamous Oh-Enn/Oh-Eff-Eff switch.
@somf69
/youtube it crowd answering machine
@djslack I love that show
So I told myself, the next time I see a refurbished PC or tablet combo, I will buy one, if two qualifications are met. It has to be at least 1080p and it has to be sub $300. I found some contenders via other methods, but I was sure meh would come through for me. Alas, today’s listing makes me wish I bought that microsoft surface a while back…
@mehdaf those were the good old days. I had gone all the way through buying that Surface then I cancelled the order. I must have had one of the last ones because it was sold out a minute later. You’re welcome, whoever got my Surface!
@mehdaf Yeah, sorry to rub salt in it, but I absolutely frickin’ LOVE the Surface I got from Meh. Yeah, I sunk a lot of money for it, but I’m so much more productive now.
@mehdaf about that. That particular meh was mislabled. What we got were the i5 pro2s with 256gb at the option of a discount. (Special resell) Plus side is that the one I managed to snag had the newer 4300u chip.
@JunoZXV that seems to be a trend these days. What % was the discount? That may have teetered on a deal breaker for me…
@mehdaf it went for the same price. But they gave out a code for 50$ off any future meh order including that one. It only applied to the accounts that placed an order on that particular surface deal.
@JunoZXV this makes me feel just a little bit better about missing out on the Surface. That 512GB SSD was pretty sexy.
@JunoZXV @melonscoop the $50 off makes me feel a little bit worse I passed on it!
Finally, a decent cheapo laptop with Windows instead of that crap ChromeOS. Thank you Meh!
Can the Ram be extended to 8 gig?
@synasoft i have not referred to any documentation but I’d put my money on no. Tablets aren’t modular like pcs or laptops, with so much stuff crammed into so little space they really can’t be.
Apparently you can add an SSD or hard drive to the keyboard, though: http://community.acer.com/t5/Windows-Tablets-and-Convertibles/Aspire-Switch-11-SATA-cable-for-SSD-in-keyboard/td-p/323897
@synasoft … That’s what pisses my off, they never say whether it’s expandable nor how much. We can only assume since it’s a 64 bit but sometimes that turns out to be a disappointment… Another down fall is its only a duel core… not a terrible let down but with the Octa-Core just around the corner it makes for a sure dinosaur in record time.
@djslack This is a Switch 11 V (from the model number) your article is for last year’s Switch 11 (no V) I think, Different keyboard.
@synasoft @djslack The LPDDR3 RAM is soldered in. On the plus side, that means it doesn’t need as much power as socketed memory, so it runs cooler, and the battery lasts longer. It also means one less hole in the case, so the product is more reliable (but as @cranky1950 points out, it is still an Acer).
There are trade offs when engineering a RAM interface. High performance graphics RAM is also often soldered on. In that case, they typically engineer for higher speed. They get higher RAM bandwidth than socketed CPU memory of the same hardware generation, but no significant power savings.
On the topic of Acer quality… I haven’t dealt with an Acer recently, so maybe they are better now. When I dealt with used laptops on a regular basis from 2008 to 2010, Acer Group products were the worst. The Acer Group uses the brands Acer, Packard Bell, and Gateway. It also used the brandname eMachines until 2013. It kept some of the worst features of each company with each new merger and acquisition. Acer stopped using the eMachines brand in 2013.
@djslack
I just took apart the keyboard dock on the 11 V for this offer and it looks like the SATA controller chip and the SATA connector are NOT Populated on the PCB in the dock. So it’s not just as simple as buying the right cable as it was for the 11 (no V) to add a SATA drive to the base.
The mounting hardware for the drive is there, but no chips and connectors soldered onto the board.
@bbf Yeah, sorry about that. @ggrochr pointed out my mistake above. I didn’t read closely enough. But it would have been nice if it worked.
I’ve never had good luck with acer stuff and given that these are refurbs nah
This has the exact same specs as my 3 year old laptop only with half the RAM, a smaller HD, and worse graphics. Other than that looks great!
On the good side:
Big SSD
Convertible to a tablet
OK battery life
IPS screen should look pretty good and the low resolution should help compensate for the slow graphics.
CHEAP
USB3 port.
On the bad side:
Sloooooooooooowwwwww. Like 2010 slow.
Low resolution screen.
Slow graphics.
I don’t need this, but I thought about it.
@rrkappes well SLLOOOW compared to a desktop, but quite fast compared to most bargain tables/convertables. Its got the recent Core M-5Y10C…look it up, for fanless it flies. Not for gamers, but it should display my powerpoints and do office docks/interwebs just fine. The CPU is the most advanced thing on it. For a fanless low power tablet that is.
Not slow for a tablet:
CPU Benchmark for the Core M-5Y10C processor is 2814…which beats a lot of i3s. Reference: Link
Tempting but the screen size is a bit too small for my taste. If it was in the 13" range, I would have bite.
This is literal garbage. Like, that’s the kind of processor that only belongs in a recycling plant.
@Dizavid if you could let go of the snotty end of your fuckstick long enough to Google up some information, you would find this processor is a low wattage high efficiency processor that does more operations per cycle , a different architecture all together. It also can turbo boost to like 2ghz , yeah not MHz. You should be comparing benchmarks not processor speeds.
@gak0090 Pft, research is boring. But hey, it’s still trash. It’s below 1080p. That’s ridiculous now.
@Dizavid but a higher resolution display would tax the already overtaxed iGPU even more.
@kus So the GPU sucks dick also.
@Dizavid the display does suck (as I mentioned later). This isn’t a gaming machine, but the core m gpu will easily support higher resolution playing some games, office type apps, image editing and about 99% of what most people do 99% of the time on a PC, while sipping fucking battery power. The thing you need to be concerned about is that when it comes to watching gay, straight, and trans porn you will be able to Marathon masturbate without taking up an outlet, which you can clearly reserve for the vibrating dildo you stick up your ass. In the case of porn viewing, the shitty display might be an advantage, the anal warts aren’t nearly as pronounced and the scars from the botched tit jobs are a little smoother.
This looks like a rather interesting deal, but I’m torn between this Acer and a refurbished Dell Venue 11 Pro T07G with Core I5-4300Y processor. The Dell costs about one hundred dollars more and the keyboard is a separate item which adds at least another hundred to the price.
I honestly don’t know if this is a worthwhile compromise. I’m looking to replace my aging netbook (HP 11 inch laptop with an AMD E-350 processor) with something that I can use as both a laptop and a tablet. I won’t be doing any gaming on it, just MS Office, web browsing and maybe the occasional YouTube video or Netflix marathon session. (I tried an HP Slate 8 inch with an Atom processor. That thing was dead slow and the included RAM was a joke.)
Comments?
@TheTexasTwister So that Dell is double the money basically. Much beefier specs, but for the things you mentioned wanting to do, this is plenty and more powerful than your old netbook. I’d go with this one if not being 1080p doesn’t irk you.
the processors on this one and the Dell Venue 11 pro are about equivalent. CPU Benchmark on the i5-4300Y is 2565 just a bit lower than the M-5Y10c.
NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!
I fscking FORBID you from offering laptops with this barrel-scraping resolution. This panel size should never have existed in the first place, much less lasted nearly ten years in the market. This is an industry joke that needs to be drowned in the bathtub.
I thought constantly offering Bluetooth speakers was an insultingly colossal waste of your precious sales space, but now I see where my true antipathy lies. That Other Site offers laptops with this excremental resolution – always described (sarcastically, one must presume) as providing “stunning clarity” – every ${GOD}-damned day. And maybe if, like them, you were to daily offer 6900 different things that you can’t meaningfully search through, you could get away with that. But you’ve got only the one slot, and what’s placed there should count.
Yes, it’s only an 11" panel and, at that dimension, it’s barely acceptable. But for the love of ${GOD} and all that is holy, please make this an exception rather than a rule. If the panel is 13" diagonal or larger, it must be at least FHD (1080p) or better, or it should not be offered to the market.
(Grrr, I say, grrrr…)
@ewhac You are preaching to the choir. While I’ve accepted the lower resolutions on smaller tablets and laptops as a necessary evil for the lower cost, they often times cause me eyestrain that my older fifteen inch laptop with a full HD screen does not. (Of course, that old thing also has an aging Turion dual core CPU and it can get bogged down pretty quick.)
@ewhac just went and checked and just today they have
@ewhac I stated the same sort of thing above by mentioning that modern cell phones with much smaller screens have better resolution. A computer is supposed to have better resolution than a tablet or a phone and this model is way off. Certainly a deal breaker for me.
@TheTexasTwister http://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-windows-work-better-with-super-high-resolut-1711254465. You can scale everything up so it’s not so small
Let’s all be PC with this deal–
Bottom line is 1366x768 resolution is for bitches. This is not meant as a sexist comment, because there are plenty of men that fall in that category, and plenty of women who do not. Bottom line is, if you use that resolution you’re basically a bitch.
@gak0090 Damn straight.
@gak0090 I do not understand that segment of the pc market, every manufacturer makes them but they are the computer equivalent of a Renault LeCar. 1080 should be a minimum today. The only exception I’ll make to that is my Amazon Fire gets by with 1024 x 600 only because of the $40 price point, and the 6" screen. (Yes they are now $50, but they had some promotional pricing early on).
@mehdaf I bought an Amazon Fire HD for $40 at a Radio Shack store that was closing. It died in less than 3 weeks and since the store was closed Amazon sent me a brand new HDX model that has a 1920 x 1200 display. Love it. I agree 1080p should be a minimum.
4GB RAM is not by any stretch of the imagination ‘burly’ for a Windows machine. So, I guess… I know what I can go do.
[brushing the pollen off the keyboard]
If I take one tablet every 12 hours, will I feel better?
If not, meh.
I’m surprised this is still up and not sold out. Seems like a good enough deal to me. I just don’t have the clams.
I am just looking for something for writing, research, and Internet work. The price point is great, but not if it is going to just crap out on me all the time.
This is a good deal for a nice 2in1. The only thing I hate about it is the resolution is 1366x768. I am a complete pixel whore. Now, even at this shitty (somewhat standard) resolution, the price is low enough, and the other features are strong enough, to make this a great buy for someone looking at the this compact 2in1 form factor. Let me paraphrase, this is like a really hot chick with B cups(1366x768). You would still bang her (and enjoy it), but she’d be a lot more appealing with DDs(quad HD).
@gak0090 but i like bcups
/giphy b cups
@riceatusc /giphy DD Cups:
@PhysAssist and:
@PhysAssist though i dont dislike dd cups either…
/giphy b cups and dd cups
@riceatusc We used to have an Umbrella 'too, she died- thanks for the happy reminder of our little clown.
Some other cups we missed:
http://imgur.com/L0062OX
and I’m done.
@PhysAssist
Nothing “meh” about this convo
/giphy bewbies
@riceatusc The might qualify as Meh- just to stay in the topic
Nope. Total pass- they’ll be lucky if they sell 100 of these
Meh? You will hate the track pad on this thing. I saw the complaints when I bought mine last year…I concur, the track pad is so slick it doesn’t always register your finger…unless you have the sweaty sticky type. I have to frequently wet the finger to make it work. Also my Micro SD port keeps acting like I just put in a new card every minute or 2.(this is a new problem), even after switching to another sd card. When it sees a card it opens a explorer window…every time every minute or 2. The rest of the computer is great…screen, speed behavior. But without the sd card working, I lose my extra 32gb’s. Time for a new one… Buy at your own risk…
Oh, and to the verbally abuse Screen hater …the screen is fine…no one cares or can tell how “barely acceptable” it (supposedly) is. It works good, looks good. My complaints don’t lie with the screen.
My main issue is with Windows 10. I have two laptops with Windows 10 (both started with
and they have 4gb ram and both are decent enough fast. Upgrading one from 8 to 10 nearly broke it. The problem is both drop connections to wireless internet. It’s really annoying my router is a good Netgear AC and my old Windows XP desktop with a Belkin dongle stays connected just fine (also my Nintendo 3DS, Roku, Wii U). So I end up using my old desktop and my iPad mini 2 to do almost everything and they just collect dust. Oh I’ve also updated all the drivers and in some cases I think that made it worse.
The M-5Y10c in this tablet is about on par with the i3-3217u in my old Acer tablet from 2012. Main difference is that it uses less than half the power of that i3 and doesn’t have an annoying fan. My old tablet is 1080p though so I can’t justify $220 for what’s essentially a performance sidegrade.
Does this have an HDMI port?
Just needed to vent a bit because it’s taking a WEEK for the computer to ship from Texas to San Diego with Smartpost. $5.00 for 3 flashlights, I can understand shipping it via smartpost… but a $220 computer???
I’m an impatient puppy.