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First identify your use cases. If its mostly browsing, music, documentation and a bit of development - then a netbook would meet all your requirements. I bough

First identify your use cases. If its mostly browsing, music, documentation and a bit of development - then a netbook would meet all your requirements. I bought myself an asus x205ta laptop, and can't recommend it enough. It has good build quality, and has one of the best screens at its price range. Weighs less than 1 kg (~980 gms), A 11.6 screen size, easily one of the best trackpads in its price range, full chiclet style keyboard, 2GB ram that can easily handle a dozen open tabs.. Although the built-in storage is a mere 32GB of which approx. 20GB is available to the user. This can be expanded with a microsd card. As i said, it all depends on your use cases. For me, this is the laptop with the right tradeoffs ( tradeoffs i was willing to give up anyway ). Did i mention, the sound quality is good too. No usb 3.0 though. I have setup vagrant on this machine and ssh into it to do any linux stuff ( am a sys admin and i like to have a terminal to try out stuff / setup local dev environment ).

rkwz 11y ago
> easily one of the best trackpads in its price range Offtopic, but I have the same model and the trackpad is atrocious! And the wifi disconnects every 15 minutes. And I got it from microsoft store as a signature edition model. On the positive side, it is extremely lightweight and the battery lasts for a long time.
- rajeshmr 11y ago
  I read some reviews stating your issue, but i took a chance and i couldn't have been more satisfied. Please do check if you could replace your model since yours is a signature edition model. I would also like to add, that i was impressed with system76 laptops. I seriously considered buying them, but i changed course since i was unsure of the after sales service since mine would come under international sales. Btw, i get about 10 hours of battery usage :)
  - rkwz 11y ago
    Unfortunately, I purchased it in US and I'm in India. Not sure if I can replace it here.

rkwz 11y ago

> easily one of the best trackpads in its price range Offtopic, but I have the same model and the trackpad is atrocious! And the wifi disconnects every 15 minutes. And I got it from microsoft store as a signature edition model. On the positive side, it is extremely lightweight and the battery lasts for a long time.

rajeshmr 11y ago
I read some reviews stating your issue, but i took a chance and i couldn't have been more satisfied. Please do check if you could replace your model since yours is a signature edition model. I would also like to add, that i was impressed with system76 laptops. I seriously considered buying them, but i changed course since i was unsure of the after sales service since mine would come under international sales. Btw, i get about 10 hours of battery usage :)
- rkwz 11y ago
  Unfortunately, I purchased it in US and I'm in India. Not sure if I can replace it here.