That’s a mouthful… but here we go with another Laptop review.
This time it’s a Dynabook (Toshiba) 14” lightweight laptop. Again, this is one
of my laptops, and it’s one that I carry around with me in my backpack in case
I am onsite, or out, and need a laptop for any reason.
It’s a small and light laptop is perfect for light use surfing
the ‘net, dealing with emails and the odd bit of word processing, etc. It comes
with an Intel Celeron dual core CPU running at 1.9Ghz, together with 4Gb ram
(that is expandable), and a 128Gb SSD, loaded with Windows 10 Pro (Education
edition). As stated, the ram is expandable and I’ve already upgraded it to 8Gb
as Windows runs much happier with 8Gb – the only downside is that to upgrade
the ram, you must remove the case bottom, and replace the single ram module
with a larger capacity one.
In general use, the laptop is fast enough, but not something
that I would want to try and game on as the CPU is of an older design and only
has 2 cores. It takes less than a minute to start from pressing the on button
to being able to use, and once on, does most things at a speed that means you
aren’t waiting for it. Battery life is given as up to 15 or so hours, but in my
time with it so far, it’s never showed more than 5 hours of battery lift on the
Windows Battery ‘Guess-o-meter’.
Weight wise, it’s around 1.5Kg and only having a 14” screen
is quite easy to hold in one hand (though not recommended if it’s open and
being used!). It comes with a Gigabit Lan socket, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) and Bluetooth
5.0, it also has 1 USB-C 3.1 Gen1, 2 x USB 3.1, 1 x HDM and a
Headphone/microphone combo jack. Charging is via a supplied DC barrel jack (The
USB-C port says it’s PD/Data/Video, but not sure if it will charge via the port).
Screen resolution isn’t HD due to the size of the screen but
is 1366 x 768 and is also anti-reflective so is easy to read.
I’ve only had the laptop for a couple of weeks so far, so
can’t give long time feelings, but if it carries on as it is, then I doubt it
will have any issues.
Would I recommend this laptop – Yes, if you just want
something for the odd email and internet searching, or like me, as a carry
around laptop for the odd occasion you need one.
Just as an additional note: This laptop will run Windows 11 according to Microsoft's checker. I will probably upgrade it when it says it's available to see what happens....
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