Dell Inspiron 11.6" Touchscreen 2-in-1 Laptop, AMD A-Series, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, Windows 10 Home, Red, 3185

As a tech, I've been dreaming about a "netbook" sized device that was finally fast enough to do real work in all fields of computing. I've used everything from the early single-core Atom netbooks about 10 years ago, to the current crop of Chromebooks and 2-in1s. This is the first one that has reached the "good enough" point for general professional use. The previous AMD APUs in the Stoney Bridge generation that were small enough to appear in passively-cooled devices had E-series CPUs with 2+2 core configuration. This uses an A9 9420 that is limited down from 15W to 6W. The processor is reduced to about on par with a dual-core Celeron, but the extra 64 shaders make a big difference in any professional applications that can use them for computing. It puts this system far beyond the capabilities of its Intel competitors for direct computing on the go. It takes something like an Apple Macbook at around $1000 to get better compute performance in an 11" form factor. For general consumer use, I would only say it's slightly better than previous Celeron and Pentium powered versions of the same thing. CPU power is about the same, slightly less in single-threaded apps. The improved graphics let you play games from 6-7 years ago, rather than 10, but a cheap 15" laptop in the same price range will still do a better job. The low power and fanless cooling prevent this laptop from doing things that AMD APUs in larger laptops do with similar specs can pull off. Everything besides the APU is the same as previous models of the Inspiron 11 2-in-1 released for the past 2 years. It has the same 1366x768 TN touchscreen that is just good enough for the price. It weighs about the same and features the same keyboard, webcam and port selection. Important note if you are unfamiliar with Windows devices running on limited RAM: Any system with 4GB RAM and a slow 5400rpm hard drive is going to take 24-48 hours to be remotely usable. Windows updates and background processes will be fighting with the APU for memory and systems with integrated graphics share even more. At first this system was very slow with the stock RAM and HDD, then about 24 hours after first boot, it had a sudden speed-up and was perfectly usable for Chrome browsing, office applications and general computing without any significant slowdown.

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