Buy it on Amazon - http://lon.tv/lg9fm (affiliate link) -Asus refreshed their very popular X205TA with the E200HA running with an Atom Cherry Trail. See more cheap 2016 laptops: http://lon.tv/cheap2016 .
VIDEO INDEX:
0:40 - Hardware overview
1:45 - Ports
2:07 - Keyboard and trackpad
3:37 - Battery life
3:53 - Web browsing and YouTube / video streaming
6:14 - Microsoft Word and Office
7:02 - Gaming and Minecraft
8:43 - High bit rate movie playback with Kodi
9:29 - Conclusion and final thoughts
This is an excellent value and a very well rounded sub $200 laptop. It performs well, has excellent battery life of over 10-11 hours, and has more consistent gaming performance as compared to other 2016 laptops we looked at - namely the Stream 11 from HP, Cloudbook from Acer, and Dell Inspiron 11.
My only gripe? The keyboard. It feels very much like a netbook keyboard from the early days of low cost PCs and could be better. I also noticed that its Octane benchmark tests for web browsing were a little bit lower than it should be given that it's running a current generation Atom Cherry Trail processor.
Those minor issues aside this is another great value from Asus.
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