What laptop would you buy, now?

Started by Brad, April 23, 2015, 01:45:18 PM

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littleman

>How about a 13" screen in an 11" chassis?

That's a nice looking machine.

rcjordan

Just came in on my feed

"The Microsoft Signature version we'd recommend, which includes 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, costs $699"

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/28/asus-zenbook-ux305-its-no-macbook-but-its-a-good-midrange-laptop/

Brad

I've been looking at Macbook Airs, the ASUS Zenbook above (great deal) and various other 11 - 14", very thin notebooks.  These things are darn near as portable as a large tablet except they have a keyboard. 

Now you can get a tablet with LTE ala carte, wouldn't it be neat if you could get one of these with LTE ala carte too?

Brad

Well it's in.

Installed Vivaldi browser, Evernote, and LibreOffice first thing. Will check on Box and Dropbox apps soon.  These make me avoid the worse parts of the Apple walled garden. Also installed AVG Free for Mac Antivirus.

Am finding my way around this version of OS X, and will make a call on installing Parallels after I get used to it.

This Macbook has the new multitouch trackpad with no buttons.  :-\  That is taking some adjustment. Frankly it strikes me as fixing a problem that was not there.

Screen is astounding.