AnthonyW
I must say that I was a little disappointed by this laptop. Yeah, I know its never going to read any speed contests, but I had a E200HA for over a year so I felt like I knew what I was getting with this laptop. Unfortunately there were a few things that disappointed, the biggest of which was the smallest change: the lack of perceived performance improvement from the E200HA model. Pros: - Keyboard: this has a most excellent keyboard for the size. Typing is very pleasant and for the most part I hit the right keys, like I would on a much larger laptop. It even has a delete button, which for anyone who types as poorly as I do, is an essential button. - Ports: it has all the ports I need. No dongles required. - Power button: placed in good spot that cannot be mistaken for another key on the keyboard, or for a volume up/down. - weight: this is the lightest laptop Ive ever owned. I can easily pick it up with one hand, barely noticeable in backpack. - price/value: I get a happy buzz from the price. Under $200 for a device that is functional, where I can do web development while traveling, is very satisfying. - N4000 Celeron responds better than the Atom 8350 in the E200HA Cons: - only two cores/threads. The E200HA had 4 cores/threads and for LInux, I felt it made a difference - display: there was not material improvement from previous model. It really could benefit from 1080p. - IO speed: the eMMC drive is very slow, read/writes to USB 3 drives perform much slower on this device compared to my other laptop, same goes for MicroSD - 4G RAM: this is fine for basics, but having 8G would have made this little computer so much more useful - design: the E200HA looked great. Asus really made the E200HA a good looking gold-colored laptop that looked more expensive than it was. This one looks cheap, you may be a little embarrassed to flash this one around in public. Now, if Asus could somehow make a Windows version of their 12.5" C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook I think they would have the ideal portable laptop.
