Spec Me a Good All-rounder!

pcfarrar · 16 Feb 2022 at 15:18

Defy Belief said:
Those have terrible panels which would be absolute junk for any form of design work.
Maybe something like an OLED Vivobook is what i'd look at but will be a tiny bit over your budget depending on what processor you look at, the i5 version is about £649 in places currently on sale.

I've been buying the OLED i5 Vivobook Pro's at work recently, the panels are excellent nothing else comes close for the price.

thewanted · 21 Feb 2022 at 09:09

pcfarrar said:
I've been buying the OLED i5 Vivobook Pro's at work recently, the panels are excellent nothing else comes close for the price.

What are the trackpads like? Are they smooth?

My partner received a new Latitude recently and the trackpad feels like sandpaper :/

pcfarrar · 21 Feb 2022 at 17:56

thewanted said:
What are the trackpads like? Are they smooth?
My partner received a new Latitude recently and the trackpad feels like sandpaper :/

It's definitely smooth, also has this light up numpad gimmick feature which seems a bit pointless.

thewanted · 21 Feb 2022 at 19:46

pcfarrar said:
It's definitely smooth, also has this light up numpad gimmick feature which seems a bit pointless.

Nice one, thanks. I've seen that in some videos and it really does look a bit naff.

pcfarrar · 22 Feb 2022 at 10:55

thewanted said:
Nice one, thanks. I've seen that in some videos and it really does look a bit naff.

We just bought a few hundred new Latitudes at work and I tried one today. See what you mean now about the sandpaper trackpad, the Asus is much better.

thewanted · 22 Feb 2022 at 10:59

pcfarrar said:
We just bought a few hundred new Latitudes at work and I tried one today. See what you mean now about the sandpaper trackpad, the Asus is much better.

I am a huge fan of Latitudes, but holy **** Dell really messed up that trackpad! It's awful to use.

Really tempted by the Vivobook Pro 14 as the value for money is pretty incredible, but the lack of USB-C ports is putting me off.

varkanoid · 27 Jun 2022 at 17:19

thewanted said:
I am a huge fan of Latitudes, but holy **** Dell really messed up that trackpad! It's awful to use.

Really tempted by the Vivobook Pro 14 as the value for money is pretty incredible, but the lack of USB-C ports is putting me off.

I know this is a bit old but I picked up a Vivobook Pro 14 as I wanted a cheap laptop for when we go on holiday etc and I must admit I am mightily impressed so far. The OLED screen is stunning. I picked up the K3400PH version with a GTX 1650 and Intel i5 11300H/8GB RAM as I wanted the dedicated GPU. Cost me £509 after a 15% off voucher. There are various versions of it including a Ryzen one but they do not all come with the GTX 1650. Whether 8gb RAM will be an issue not sure but I updated it to Windows 11 and its had all the driver/BIOS updates. Just downloaded 3D Mark Timespy to give it a spin. What surprised me though is the boost clock of the 1650 is 1155mhz but with a quick test of GPU-Z graphic test it was boosting to 1740mhz ! Thats quite a leap and it was at 58c. So will see what it does under Timespy.