Review on 💻 Hyundai Thinnote-A 14.1" Laptop - Celeron, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, SATA HDD Slot, Windows 10 Home S Mode - Silver by John Mahfood

I bought this because I was looking for a cheap laptop with an ethernet port which I've gotten network problems all over the place house can fix . I liked that it has a bezel that can be opened to install an optional 2.5" SATA drive (SSD or HDD). I also have nothing to complain about the build quality, for the price it looks like a well-made laptop with a decent display, comfortable keyboard and touchpad. What completely disappointed me about the Hyundai Thinnote-A is its network capability. WLAN is limited to 802.11N , and it repeatedly had trouble connecting to my Eero 6 Pro hotspot. On Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) it required some driver tweaking to even connect, and even when connected to Wi-Fi it was extremely, unnecessary slow. In Windows most of the time it just flatly refused to connect. Incredibly, the situation with the wired network was even worse. The Ethernet port is connected to the system via an internal USB connection and is limited to "fast" 100 Mbit/s Ethernet. This by itself wouldn't be too much of a problem, but most of the time the ethernet adapter won't initialize on both Windows and Linux due to a USB error. On the first laptop I received it worked fine at first and then stopped, so I figured I got a bad unit and traded it in for another. But the second box did the same thing: the ethernet port worked sometimes, but mostly didn't work at other times. Since I bought this laptop specifically for its built-in Ethernet support, unresolvable network issues were a hindrance for me. , and in the end I returned the plug-in too. I ended up buying a slightly cheaper laptop and a separate, very cheap USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and they both worked flawlessly right out of the box.