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Review on πŸ’» BOCCONI 14.1" Ultra-Thin Laptop: Affordable FHD 1920x1080 IPS Display, Intel N3350, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, Windows 10 - Perfect for Students, Home, School, and Office Work (Gray) by Freddy Hammonds

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Great budget RDP laptop!

I have ordered a new MacBook Pro BTO M1 but the delivery is due in a month. At the same time, I wanted an inexpensive laptop (since I'd already spent $2,000 on a Mac) to keep me going, and a regular laptop that I could travel with without worrying about huge financial losses if he was stolen. How do you know what you are getting with this laptop, I think it's great! I set mine up as an RDP thin client that connects to my home server and gives access to far more processing power than a meager N3350 processor and 4GB of RAM. Pros: - Very light - 2.4 lbs. It's also quite thin. - High quality professional dark gray finish with a stylishly placed logo on the top corner of the lid. - Superb 1080p matte IPS display. Colors are subdued a bit by default, but thankfully they can be calibrated using the preinstalled Intel Graphics Command Center. After calibration, the display is above its price level in my opinion. - Good battery life is around 6.5 hours in my experience. - Typing on the keyboard is pleasant. More tactile than I expected.- Reasonably sized trackpad with multi-touch support.- All drivers pre-installed without malware.- Wi-Fi 802.11ac performs well (I get an expected speed of 300-450 Mbps on a gigabit connection) .- MicroSD and M.2 slots are a nice bonus for extra storage. Cons: - Must use a Microsoft account for initial setup (although you can switch to a local account later or change the laptop image). - The trackpad sometimes registers erroneous clicks. Sensitivity can be adjusted, which helps a little. Maybe a driver update will fix that. - Poor webcam quality. I strongly recommend using an external one. The assembly design is okay, but probably not suitable for general use; I wouldn't trust a laptop to survive a serious drop and the display hinges don't seem secure enough to take more force than necessary. However, given the low price and my use case, I don't see this as a big issue. Native performance won't be great with CPU and memory enabled, but for my RDP use case, that's not exactly the case. Problem.- Aesthetic nitpicks: I would have liked the included charger to be black instead of white, the trackpad to be gray instead of black, and made of a less grainy material, but I won't complain given the price. Overall I am very impressed with the laptop and it does its job well.

Pros
  • Amazing
Cons
  • Something is wrong