![]() Lenovo is a name that’s going to come up a lot in this list, because the China-based manufacturer knows how to put together a good budget laptop. If you can put up with looking like a massive Asus fan, this is a solid cheap laptop well worth considering. You get a year’s subscription to Microsoft 365, which bundles Microsoft Office with 1TB of cloud storage, so in many ways you can treat this laptop like a Chromebook, and its 12-hour battery life is certainly very Chromebook-like.Ī couple of strange design decisions stand out: the choice of a bright yellow border on the Return key, and that the outer casing (available in four colours) is covered in segments of the Asus logo, a little like Egyptian hieroglyphics. If you can work around this, there's a lot to like here: the shell is plastic, which makes it light, and there's a good range of ports including full-size HDMI, micro SD (essential as the built-in storage is only 64GB, though a model with 128GB is also available) and some fast USB ports. Luckily, if it doesn’t suit you, there's an option in the Settings app to switch to full Windows 10 (though once you’ve switched, you can’t switch back), from where you can upgrade to Windows 11. The other drawback is that this model comes with Windows 10 in S mode, which limits you to apps installed from the Microsoft Store and generally makes things feel a bit more like a tablet rather than a laptop. The screen may only have a resolution of 1366x768 (a Full HD 1080p model is also available, but more expensive) but this works for a low-power laptop as there are fewer pixels to push. Lower-powered laptops are a staple of this market segment, and the Asus Vivobook does a really good job of incorporating a dual-core Celeron processor from 2019 into a 14in laptop. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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