For a few years I had an X205TA "Eeebook" which was a bit of a mixed bag.
The battery life was stellar on the Atom processor, and the boot time was fast enough that I could save even more battery by shutting it down between classes.
The cramped keyboard and tiny screen, however, made it a pain to use sometimes, and 2gb of RAM meant having to be careful about what I had running to avoid seriously slowing it down.
When Windows 10 came around and PCs started upgrading without any user input, my laptop was among them. Unfortunately, the original operating system was the slimmed down "Windows 8.1 with Bing" that was intended for use on low-spec hardware. Windows 10 absolutely killed the performance and I had to grab a used Thinkpad Carbon to have something light but functional.
Damn, I had, still have the exact same one, managed to avoid the Win 10 upgrade and it worked well but my issue now is charging. Battery life was Amazing and it really was good enough for most stuff, just can't reliably charge even after 3-4 replacement chargers.
The battery life was stellar on the Atom processor, and the boot time was fast enough that I could save even more battery by shutting it down between classes.
The cramped keyboard and tiny screen, however, made it a pain to use sometimes, and 2gb of RAM meant having to be careful about what I had running to avoid seriously slowing it down.
When Windows 10 came around and PCs started upgrading without any user input, my laptop was among them. Unfortunately, the original operating system was the slimmed down "Windows 8.1 with Bing" that was intended for use on low-spec hardware. Windows 10 absolutely killed the performance and I had to grab a used Thinkpad Carbon to have something light but functional.