for most people, this first bit will suffice: a small laptop that works and the keyboard and trackpad work well, the screen looks good and the performance is ok for the price and adequate for routine things like websurfing. battery life is also very good and reasonable. no issues here. there is a small bug in the system that if left in standby mode when it reawakens it may require a reboot to get the wifi working again, not all the time but the longer in standby mode the more likely it will happen.
for the tech savy, read on:
I purchased this laptop for a significantly reduced price as a refurbished unit. for the sub $100 price point, it is an absolute bargain. It replaced an aging RCA Viking 10" tablet/keyboard combo running a quadcore baytrail atom/2gb ram/ 32gb ram that I purchased in 2015 for about the same price. the old tablet was running out of disk space as windows continues to update and the old emmc was a slow unit. I had reservations at first going back to a dual core, but the improvements made from the baytrail to the gemini lake refresh platform are significant, and prior to purchase i looked at comparative benchmarks and was surprised to see the astounding performance gains on the new platform. after purchasing and testing this laptop, i am confident I made the right choice to upgrade. the dual core celeron, still atom-based with newer architecture, is much faster than the previous quadcore in daily tasks. this is not my primary laptop but a unit i keep in the living room for casual browsing of internet and for that it works well and the size is perfect for this need. the emmc is 5x faster than the emmc in the 2015 tablet and the 64gb of hdd space is adequate for future windows 10 updates where the 32gb was already a limitation. the 4gb ram is another huge improvement for windows 10 with much less need for pagefiling. this unit is passively cooled and i can't see any heat exhaust ports, but it never feels hot with typical usage, so the cooling is adequate. performance would be improved with better cooling, but this is not the purpose of such a laptop. overall I am very happy with this purchase and as a refurbished unit there were no issues with defects or quality whatsoever.
for those who like to geek out with bios options, this unit curiously has a fully adjustable bios, including tpd setting, turbo control, and core control. you don't see this in a mass manufactured laptop. If you don't know what you are doing you will get yourself in trouble quickly, but for those that like to tinker it is a delight. however, the lack of robust cooling and the primary need of the laptop kept me from adjusting the tdp setting for even better performance, as i feel the factory settings are adequate and I doubt there is much headroom in the cooling solution to push the tpd higher. it was fun however to briefly change the cpu into a single core 1.1 ghz unit and see it crawl for a few minutes just for giggles.
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