Acer Celeron N3350 1.1Ghz 2-in-1 11.6" 32GB flash/SSD 1080P REFURB $179.99 @ Newegg on eb

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-SP111-...leron-N3350-1-1-GHz-4-GB-Memory-/302304081924

This caught my eye after another poster on here mention this laptop series from Acer.

What's interesting is, these lower-cost laptops, have 1080P IPS screens!

There's also a 13" model with a 128GB SSD available, MSRP for $399.99 or so. Which makes me wonder, if this is an eMMC drive, like most lower-end cloudbooks, or if this is a real M.2 SSD, just small, and could potentially be upgraded. (That would make this is MUCH sweeter deal.)

Newegg's listing also says 4GB of RAM, upgradable to 8GB. If that's an SO-DIMM (DDR4?), then that would point to upgradeable storage as well.

Edit: PassMark of CPU. Seems acceptable, if somewhat slow. Similar to some early-vintage Core2Duo CPUs, only at 6W SDP.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3350+@+1.10GHz

Edit: These are mfg refurb, btw.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My experience with lower-end Atom laptops is this:

BayTrail dual and quad-cores: Acceptable for web browsing, some media playback (skips frames full-screen, at 720P YouTube), and Skype takes up 90% CPU on the dual-core models, leaving precious little CPU for browsing forums at the same time. Windows updates are slow, but not insanely horribly so.

Cherry Trail: Supposedly same CPU core are Bay Trail, but apparently they took out a particular OoO execution resource out of the core, and in my real-world experience, it's actually slower, for anything but media-playback tasks. (It has an improved iGPU over Bay Trail.) Windows updates are unbearable.

Apollo Lake (this deal): No experience, but I've heard good things, like, "Core2-class" performance.