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Acer Aspire Switch 10 2-in-1 for $279 no tax
Posted on 1/24/15 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 1/24/15 at 1:22 pm
i would have it shipped (free) to Montana so no sales tax. $279 flat.
It seems like any shortcomings could be overcome by the price and realistic expectations.
I'm a Mac guy (have Windows on one of them) but I wouldn't mind having a dedicated cheap Windows device + fiancee uses Windows for work (very light use), and neither of us has a tablet besides an old Fire. I'm also Android so don't care about iOS.
Has Office 365, and pretty crappy specs (2gig; 1.33GHz, 64gigSSD), but has HDMI, and it seems to have decent hybrid functionality--CNET says hardware is good and it actually outperforms more expensive devices.
Question: for web browsing and streaming, not much multitasking, some Rosetta Stone use, word processing, some Acrobat use to view low rez plans/drawing, is the 2gig going to drive me nuts? (Not even going to bother putting Photoshop on this.) Should I put the $279 toward something better?
I'm not terribly worried about the 64 gig ssd, as this won't be a storage-oriented computer, and it has a micro-SD slot. Battery life seems meh at around 6 at best.
It seems like any shortcomings could be overcome by the price and realistic expectations.
I'm a Mac guy (have Windows on one of them) but I wouldn't mind having a dedicated cheap Windows device + fiancee uses Windows for work (very light use), and neither of us has a tablet besides an old Fire. I'm also Android so don't care about iOS.
Has Office 365, and pretty crappy specs (2gig; 1.33GHz, 64gigSSD), but has HDMI, and it seems to have decent hybrid functionality--CNET says hardware is good and it actually outperforms more expensive devices.
Question: for web browsing and streaming, not much multitasking, some Rosetta Stone use, word processing, some Acrobat use to view low rez plans/drawing, is the 2gig going to drive me nuts? (Not even going to bother putting Photoshop on this.) Should I put the $279 toward something better?
I'm not terribly worried about the 64 gig ssd, as this won't be a storage-oriented computer, and it has a micro-SD slot. Battery life seems meh at around 6 at best.
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Posted on 1/24/15 at 1:53 pm to McLemore
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, not much multitasking, some Rosetta Stone use, word processing, some Acrobat use to view low rez plans/drawing, is the 2gig going to drive me nuts?
It would be serviceable if you are extremely diligent and keeping background programs and services to nothing but the essentials to keep the OS running, and do those aforementioned tasks one at a time. Right now I have 17 tabs open across two windows in chrome, and I'm about about 1.4GB usage for this browsing session alone. I'm guessing the RAM isn't upgradeable either.
Posted on 1/24/15 at 11:41 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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and I'm about about 1.4GB usage for this browsing session alone.
How do I find that? I have like 18 tabs open across Chrome and Firefox
and I'd like to see what I'm using. Posted on 1/25/15 at 11:53 am to Sho Nuff
Ctrl alt delete and open task manager
Posted on 1/25/15 at 11:53 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Oh yeah, I remember seeing that when I've hit that in the past. So under Memory in the Performance tab, right? 3.55GB. Between 5-7% CPU Usage.
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