So far, I have truly enjoyed this laptop. I've had it since mid-December. The battery life is great (I might be biased, my previous laptop only lasted 45 seconds on battery) it runs fast (I might be biased, my last one had 1gigabyte of ram) and the speakers are really clear and loud too. The keyboard has a great feel to it; you can tell which key you're pressing just by the space between keys. Every now and then it doesn't recognize a key press, typically the ones below homerow, but that's not frequent enough to be a real concern. The backspace key takes some getting used to since it's a tad smaller than your fingers want it to be. I found myself hitting num lock a lot by accident. And unless you can reach an octave +3 on a piano, you won't be able to adjust the volume with one hand. (You have to press the function key and the left or right arrow keys at the same time. Volume adjustments in programs or on the desktop would still work fine, but it takes longer.)Windows 8 is smooth and speedy, and makes it quick to start programs if you've pinned them to the start menu. The swiping to switch programs is a little bit hypersensitive sometimes, so you have to be careful not to drag your fingers too close to the edges or rest your left hand on the pad while navigating. The scrollbar on the right of the touchpad is a little hard to find sometimes, since the touchpad is flush with the frame of the laptop, but I've found that the two-finger touch scrolling option is easy enough.
Also, it is an incredibly glossy computer, so you will definitely have dust visible on it almost all the time. But really, it's what's inside that counts, right?
Aside from that, it's a fine machine, and very fun to use. I heartily recommend it.
IS AT THIS POINT, AT LEAST, VERY, VERY DIFFICULT AND LOADED WITH TONS OF WILD GOOSE CHASES.
BUT I'M CERTAIN THAT ONCE WE MASTER THIS INCREDIBLY STEEP LEARNING CURVE, ALL WILL BE WELL.I bought this in mid December and by mid January the hard disk crashed! The disk just started making clicking sounds the just crashed. Very dissapointed.
0 comments:
Post a Comment