On this page it says until Nov 30 but if you go into the detail it does say Nov 27. Not sure.. One thing I am sure about this is NOT the Surface 3 Pro, it only has an Atom processor and 2GB ram... Not sure how responsive it would be.. It is also smaller, ie 10.8 vs 12"
Yeah its not the pro, they are awesome but so expensive it would be hard to justify. I do know that the atom processor is much improved over older ones, starting with bay trail they are far from the crap from the 'netbook' era. Another important factor is that the surface 3 runs full windows, not the stupid RT version that the older non-pro surface ran. At 499 I'd jump on this for the purposes listed in the OP!
Not going to argue but it's still a huge performance difference between the I5 in the Surface 3 Pro and the atom bay trail. If he really is only going to use it for casual surfing/email, etc it would be fine but be sure that's all because any multimedia apps sure show the difference. A 14" refurbed laptop at similar price point will run rings around the Surface 3. You are right about the RT systems for sure, they were horrible.
I know this is overkill for Bfill but anyone looking for a real high end business laptop I have 1 Dell E7240 Ultrabook available, 12", I7 processor, 8GB ram, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 Pro for $780. This retailed for around $2200. at one point. It's the most powerful (and most expensive of course) one I can get at the moment. It comes already loaded with a fresh clean load of Windows 10, not just upgraded overtop of 7.
A year ago, I bought a refurbished HP Probook 6460b for $300 from newegg. I upgraded the memory to 12Gig, (there was a free slot) I also added an $60 SSD. I've been happy with it. I can run Photoshop and Maya on it no problems. I've upgraded it to Windows 10 from windows 7. HP Probooks are business class notebooks.
Any laptop I buy, I would make sure it doesn't have the bilingual Canadian keyboard. I hate that key arrangement.
A year ago, I bought a refurbished HP Probook 6460b for $300 from newegg.
Agree with your assessment on the Probooks, good machines, pretty well equivalent to the Lenovo Thinkpad line. Curious question, did it come with the O/S preloaded at that price?
That's a really good deal, probably overkill for a single PC but it just gives you more run time in case of power failure. It would likely give you 30+ min run time for a pc and monitor.. FYI, we would retail that model for close to $300 although we don't usually use Cyberpower... Our cost when I just checked is $226.
FYI, for todays PC's there is no need for "Pure" Sine wave, it is primarily best for any high tech stuff, Audio, medical and scientific equipment..
Just realized I was assuming you wanted it for a pc but if you are going to protect an expensive TV or audiophile type equipment then get something like this rather than the cheapy <$100. ones.
Don't want to crap all over this deal just because you posted it Moose but the new Braswell core (everything on one chip) is really underpowered by todays standards. Kinda like the Celeron vs Pentium days. If you want to just surf/email a bit ok, but anything more than that and you will be severely limited. The fact that has 8GB ram is nice but the advantage of being able to have multiple apps open at the same time with the extra ram is negated by the fact you wouldn't have the processing power to reasonably run them. On the other hand if you want a white laptop, it is unusual in a windows environment.
Comments
Results for - Best Buy Canada
Dell Latitude E7240 review: A nearly-great ultrabook Review | ZDNet
Any laptop I buy, I would make sure it doesn't have the bilingual Canadian keyboard. I hate that key arrangement.
Agree with your assessment on the Probooks, good machines, pretty well equivalent to the Lenovo Thinkpad line. Curious question, did it come with the O/S preloaded at that price?
CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS 1500VA 900W PFC Compatible Mini-Tower: Amazon.ca: Electronics
That's a really good deal, probably overkill for a single PC but it just gives you more run time in case of power failure. It would likely give you 30+ min run time for a pc and monitor.. FYI, we would retail that model for close to $300 although we don't usually use Cyberpower... Our cost when I just checked is $226.
FYI, for todays PC's there is no need for "Pure" Sine wave, it is primarily best for any high tech stuff, Audio, medical and scientific equipment..
Just realized I was assuming you wanted it for a pc but if you are going to protect an expensive TV or audiophile type equipment then get something like this rather than the cheapy <$100. ones.
http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/acer-aspire-156-notebook-with-intel-quad-core-n3700-160ghz-processor-windows-10-e5-532-p86k-white/6000195405107?utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_content=10&utm_campaign=CAqD7bLWUPI&siteID=CAqD7bLWUPI-iexKILF9KanUPVcU_4iRqw&wmlspartner=CAqD7bLWUPI
Don't want to crap all over this deal just because you posted it Moose but the new Braswell core (everything on one chip) is really underpowered by todays standards. Kinda like the Celeron vs Pentium days. If you want to just surf/email a bit ok, but anything more than that and you will be severely limited. The fact that has 8GB ram is nice but the advantage of being able to have multiple apps open at the same time with the extra ram is negated by the fact you wouldn't have the processing power to reasonably run them. On the other hand if you want a white laptop, it is unusual in a windows environment.
Dell Inspiron 15 3000 15.6" Laptop - Black (Intel Core i3-4005U / 500GB HDD / 4GB RAM / Windows 10) : Laptops - Best Buy Canada