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It's mostly bad because it ships with Windows Home, and there's almost nothing you can do with a windows home box with these specs. If you compare it to someth

It's mostly bad because it ships with Windows Home, and there's almost nothing you can do with a windows home box with these specs. If you compare it to something like a raspberry pi (and consider that it has a much better CPU and a bunch of peripherals included), it seems a lot more useful. But even so, it's only useful to somebody with a specific use case in mind, and not the general audience who would buy a machine at Walmart and expect it to work.

rjsw 6y ago
I have an HP convertable laptop/tablet with similar specs. It runs Zoom fine which is the main reason that I bought it. Not being able to update Windows 10 because of the size of the eMMC drive is a benefit. I keep Windows Update disabled anyway, newer Windows 10 versions keep re-enabling for you and download updates over paid network connections.
- livre 6y ago
  I also own one with similar specs but a lesser known brand. Something that worked for me to be able to upgrade Windows 10 was this: 1. Compact.exe /CompactOS:always 2. Enable compressing the whole C drive (right click, properties) 3. Clean %TMP% and C:\Windows\Temp 4. Use the new control panel storage options to clean temporary files 5. Use the old tool to clean temporary files (the one in C drive properties) because the new panel does a half-assed job 6. Defragment the disk 7. Manually remove old downloaded updates (I can't remember the commands for this) After all those steps I had about 14 GiB free, enough to upgrade Windows. The problem with that cheap thing? Nothing after or before the 15XX editions of Windows 10 works well, Windows blocks the drivers (battery management, wireless, accelerometer, sound and a few others) due to "compatibility issues." Now I'm stuck with a version that doesn't work and unable to downgrade (windows.old is long gone). It doesn't help that Microsoft doesn't offer old .iso downloads.

rjsw 6y ago

I have an HP convertable laptop/tablet with similar specs. It runs Zoom fine which is the main reason that I bought it. Not being able to update Windows 10 because of the size of the eMMC drive is a benefit. I keep Windows Update disabled anyway, newer Windows 10 versions keep re-enabling for you and download updates over paid network connections.

livre 6y ago
I also own one with similar specs but a lesser known brand. Something that worked for me to be able to upgrade Windows 10 was this: 1. Compact.exe /CompactOS:always 2. Enable compressing the whole C drive (right click, properties) 3. Clean %TMP% and C:\Windows\Temp 4. Use the new control panel storage options to clean temporary files 5. Use the old tool to clean temporary files (the one in C drive properties) because the new panel does a half-assed job 6. Defragment the disk 7. Manually remove old downloaded updates (I can't remember the commands for this) After all those steps I had about 14 GiB free, enough to upgrade Windows. The problem with that cheap thing? Nothing after or before the 15XX editions of Windows 10 works well, Windows blocks the drivers (battery management, wireless, accelerometer, sound and a few others) due to "compatibility issues." Now I'm stuck with a version that doesn't work and unable to downgrade (windows.old is long gone). It doesn't help that Microsoft doesn't offer old .iso downloads.