AZUS and W8. My last ever computer . . . possibly.
I have an AZUS Ultrabook on sale or return. It was $645 + tax down from 999.
What think you about the value? One can get a pretty nice ordinary laptop for less money, but I did yearn for top end machine. However, the spec isn't all that great. (I have 14 more days to make me mind up.)
i5 1.7 gig with modest 1.2 solid state drive. Is that clock speed okay with the Intel i5 ?
Micro plug for HDMI, which gives a good picture on the 50" telly. However, the lead, or the plug, is intermittent. No DVD of course, and I'm kind of nervous about that, but I just can't carry a vast lappy around with me anymore - not with batteries that weigh as much as this very slick bit of kit - and this case really does feel cut from titanium. Had to be, to survive the tool they used to get the security device off the lid. It was stuck on with the kind of goo that you could hang a tank from the Empire State Building with.
I went for AZUS cos a bloke in Clacton - a long time survivor as a small computer business, says they are the one least likely to fail. Mmmm . . . He also said HP were four times more likely to fail than average. Sadly, that doesn't surprise me.
It seemed like a good deal, but I have to have an aftermarket (provided) power unit and there's no box, or owt, really. What does one normally get these days? The HDMI lead cost a fortune, but I'll be taking that back broken or not.
As mentioned on the other thread, the deal is I can download 8.1 and then W7 if I like, and still return it. Downloading is taking its time. The green barometer hasn't budged for ages, but on one of the options, you don't get to see the screen at all so it might be they're mean with the display technology. Downloading, it says. I'm not holding my breath.
Skype. Bloody heck. If I pick the box, it takes over the screen and won't let me out, or back, or do anything by join MS in their game. I have a telephone deal with Skype, so just want to have exactly what I've got on all other machines. Am I SOL on this one, or can I force the old Skype past MS's demands to sign up?
I've already managed to be invaded. I simply could not get PPRuNe's Forums to call the site. Fine on this one, or R&N, but not the home list of sub-sites. Every time it put in forward slash something and then a screen told me they couldn't find the site. I downloaded CCleaner and lo, it worked. Set up prune with all the target forums on my Pprune Bookmarks button.
8.1 promises great things, but it's still sitting there saying downloading, but doing s@d-all. Maybe it's moved a thou' or two. I'll have dinner with me fingers crossed.