Originally Posted by
underpressure
The processor in there is a single core AMD chip not much more powerful than a netbook one, and much less electrically efficient. I'd pass unless price was the primary and near-only consideration.
Originally Posted by
mre5765
The other thing to think about is wide screen versus standard screen. If you go to a retail outfit like Best Buy, you will pretty much only find wide screen. Wide screen is nice for movies, but a total pain for packing in a back pack. Again, buying a business laptop mitigates that issue.
I've found non-widescreens very thin on the ground even among business laptops recently; they definitely held out longer there than in the consumer market, but last I checked Dell had finally gotten rid of their last ones, and I'm not sure if Lenovo has any left.
Which is a shame for a lot of "work" uses - for coding, and for document preparation, vertical space matters a lot more than horizontal. OTOH, it also makes it a lot harder to keep your screen open in coach.