I bought a model with i3 on board. In general, I am satisfied, for such a price it is quite difficult to find a convenient kit. The most profitable option - DNS for 2 weeks has already launched the second share on the laptop, now the price is 30 thousand, and taking into account bonuses it’s generally coming out 27. I took it based on the small size (I first selected a 13 "model, but then I saw this in a store with a suitable all the necessary connectors are present, located quite conveniently. Of the minuses - the speakers are directed downwards, muffled on a soft surface. Although, it is better not to put the laptop on something soft - from the bottom right there is an air intake for cooling. If the laptop is on your knees - the air will also be blocked, although I’m a problem only with a heavy load on the system. And another squeak. Many complain about it - the laptop really emits some kind of squeak somewhere in the middle of the board. The sound is especially audible in silence when the fan does not spin.
I put a memory bar in the laptop, an NVMe drive for the system, and a HDD for junk instead of an SSD. I installed Win10LTSC, the drivers almost all tightened themselves. Memory bar with built-in work in dual channel mode. Overall satisfied.
You can easily get to the insides - just unscrew the screws in the back cover (10pcs), under the additional piece of iron on 3 screws - memory, WiFi, PCIe and a processor. Whoever has a discrete video card will be there too =) No hidden screws, you can also change the thermal paste or clean the radiator without any problems. I like it.
The battery may well hold for 7 or more hours. For three hours of browsing the web with parallel work in Excel, the charge fell by 40%. I don’t know if this is a good indicator in 2019 - before that I used an old netbook, the battery of which initially lasted 3-4 hours on the Internet.
A useful trifle: with a charge of less than 20%, the power indicator turns orange - you immediately notice that the battery sits down if the full-screen application is running at that time.
I do not understand why manufacturers in 13 "and 14" shoved 1920x1080? You have to use scaling, which is an extra hemorrhoid in old programs. I think 1900x600 here would be just right. 1366x768 is not enough - I used 11.6 "so. By the way, the scale of the store was 150%, changed by 125%
i3-8130U and integrated graphics is enough for undemanding games. I tested it in CSGO - at 1280x720, with a minimum salary and with bots on a small map it gives out about 70-80 fps. If you really want, you can)
Post has been editedCalhoon - 23.02.19, 09:20