I think it's a good price correct me if I am wrong. Next cheapest is at Harvey Norman $433
Includes: office 2013 and windows 8.1 OS standard edition
Other important info: taken from description
SCREEN: 10.1-inch diagonal HD Antiglare LED-backlit Display TouchSmart (1366 x 768) Touchscreen Panel
PROCESSOR: AMD Dual Core A4-1200 (1.0GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, DDR3L-1.3GHz)
RAM: 2GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM (1 DIMM)
STORAGE: 320GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive
GRAPHICS: AMD UMA shared graphics
a whole 1.0 doesnt fill me full of confidence
Can I install the windows 8.1 and office from this to a desktop computer?? Cos it almost seems worth it since I was about to purchase both for a new build…
yeah thats totally what microsoft want since they are known for being generous
No, the Windows key is baked into the BIOS at the factory and is permanently tied to the machine. Don't know about the Office key but I imagine it'd be tied to the machine too.
Mechanical Hard drive? meh.
Get a T100 for +$50 on special.
Because eMMC is so much faster than Mechanical HDDs? :/
you can also store so much more on MMC as well!
eMMC's average latency is much, much faster than a mechanical hard disk. It makes a huge difference when the drive gets fragmented.
I'm sure you've seen powerful i5/i7 laptops that take a minute to boot up and are laggy when multiple programs are running.
4k random write speed is very important too.
Not worth buying unless you're a after a cheap machine for primary students — it comes with Office 2013. That's the saving grace.
Apparently it won't play 1080p videos as the GPU isn't powerful enough.
We'd be okay with using this device for basic Web surfing, email, social networking, streaming the occasional YouTube video and throwing together a Word or Excel document in a pinch. For any task beyond that, we would get frustrated pretty quickly.
Our 720p test videos seemed to play well, but even our most lightly encoded 1080p sample was completely unwatchable, thanks to lags, dropped frames, and audio sync issues. Sound was okay for a notebook, but nothing spectacular.
Scores in our other test runs were equally dismal. The mechanical hard drive caused SiSoft Sandra's Physical Disk module to compute a Drive Index of only 54.4 MB/s, whereas an SSD would have scored at least ten times that. 3DMark simply refused to run, and CineBench returned a CPU score of only 35, as opposed to the low hundreds that we're used to seeing on mid-range PCs.
Battery life was a reasonable 3 hours, 44 minutes in our standard Battery Eater Pro rundown test, and 6 hours 52 minutes in the far less intense reader test, which basically just keeps the screen on with almost zero CPU or GPU activity.
So far, this looks like an equivalent of an Intel Atom Cedarville series.
worst computer ever
my mum bought one for her work and it literally took 4 minutes to start skype.
returned to officeworks the next day,
avoid!
This product baffles me. What's the scenario where this would be your best option?
This is the cheapest price though.
I think it's for people who just want to do email, take notes, or create simple documents in MS Office, and don't want to spend an extra $100 on the T100. Or they might want something to store all their digital photos on - the T100's SSD would be too small for that.
A tablet might not be suitable as it doesn't have a proper keyboard. Or doesn't run MS Office.
looking at the processor I'd stay clear…