LaptopsBest Laptops: Holiday 2015
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I think 2015 has been a great year for notebooks. Back at CES in January, we got our first look at the first devices using Intel’s 5th generation Core-U, which is the 15-28 Watt range. Broadwell brought some huge gains in battery life with the move to 14nm, and then later in the year Intel launched Skylake, which brought about more performance and improvements to battery life again. Despite the PC industry going through some changes, there have been some amazing devices launched this year. In addition, Microsoft released Windows 10, which really has melded the two experiences of Windows 7 and Windows 8 into a more seamless user interface which offers the traditional mouse and keyboard desktop of Windows 7 with the touch controls of Windows 8with battery like dell Latitude D820 battery, dell Latitude D830 battery, dell Latitude D800 battery, dell Inspiron E1505 battery, dell Inspiron 1546 battery, dell Inspiron 1000 battery, dell Inspiron 2200 battery, dell INSPIRON 2650 battery, dell BAT3151L8 battery, dell RN873 battery, dell Inspiron 2000 battery, dell Inspiron 1520 battery.
There are far too many devices launched for us to see them all, so this guide will mostly focus on devices we’ve seen or used, with a couple of exceptions. Since there are far too many notebooks to fit them all into a single guide, this will be broken into three parts, with traditional notebooks coming first in this guide, and it will be followed by gaming notebooks, and convertibles.
Everyone has a budget, but when we dig into the lowest cost devices, there is a lot left on the tablet in search of finding that lower price bracket. This is the realm of the Chromebook, which took the idea of a netbook, and put a low resource operating system on it. Microsoft has adjusted their licensing to offer no-cost Windows licensing on certain devices in an effort to compete with the free licensing Google has offered for Chrome OS. With just a $500 ceiling in this category, I chose to focus on a couple of points. I’m looking at flash storage, even if it is eMMC, as the default option here. If this is going to be your main PC and you don’t want to leverage the cloud, these might not be the ideal devices with a limited amount of storage. Just because you don’t want to spend a lot of money, you shouldn’t have to fight with poor battery life or a sub-par keyboard and trackpad experience either.
Last year, I took a look at the HP Stream 11, which at just $199 is one of the lowest cost Windows PCs around. HP has refreshed it for 2015, moving from the Bay Trail-M SoC to the latest 14nm Braswell line. The refreshed model is now the Celeron N3050, which is a dual-core Airmont processor. It has a 6-Watt TDP, which means that the system is still fanless, but performance should be improved over the original Stream 11. Pretty much the rest of this 2.6 lb device remains unchanged, including the 1366x768 TN display. When you go budget, the first thing you lose is IPS on a notebook, even though low cost tablets can still fit them in. It’s a real shame, since an IPS offering on the Stream would really set it apart. There is 2 GB of memory, and 32 GB of eMMC storage. After owning a Stream 11 for a year, the storage is certainly not ideal, but Windows 10 has made some changes to be more efficient with storage on devices with small amounts of eMMC, and with the latest update that came out last week, you can now set it to install apps to the SD card if you do need to expand it. The other big changes for 2015 is that the Stream 11 is now offered in two new colors, with Cobalt Blue and Violet Purple now being the two choices. Despite the poor display, the HP Stream 11 offers a decent keyboard, and battery life has been very good even one year on.
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