Uses harmful PWM for all brightness levels, except the maximum (our Health-Guard profile fixes the issue) That relatively low pricing hints that these machines aren’t sophisticated designs, constructed largely of plastic and polycarbonate, and the components, such as the screen, aren’t of the highest specification.

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Users don’t want to have Norton leap up five seconds after the first boot to tell them the sky is falling or some of the other dubious software installed on this machine. If users want those things badly enough, they will install them, and to assume otherwise is just rude. The Travelmate P2 is affordable, but the HP Victus 15 is an even better deal. They can come with Intel 12th Gen processors or AMD Ryzen and a wide selection of discrete GPUs. More expensive than the TravelMate P2, the Asus Zephyrus G14 has a powerful AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS processor and a discrete Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 GPU. Making it more suitable for graphics challenges, and it still has a good battery life. Ports are mostly along either side, other than a MicroSD card slot on the front edge. The rear edge is exclusively allocated to an exhaust vent, and the underside has extensive vent holes for bringing air in to be expelled rearwards. If that’s one of the best, the worst is undoubtedly the screen. We’re unsure what the exact technology used in the display is, but it is not bright, and the viewing angles aren’t great, suggesting that it isn’t an IPS screen.

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Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors. Uses harmful PWM for all brightness levels, except the maximum (our Health-Guard profile fixes the issue) (BOE NV156FHM-N48) Striking the perfect balance between perfomance& efficency, TravelMate series notebooks are reliable learning companions powerful enough to handle most workloads. The next figure shows how well the display is able to reproduce really dark parts of an image, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambient light.

Acer TravelMate P2 Review: Not uncompromising, but perfectly Acer TravelMate P2 Review: Not uncompromising, but perfectly

A feature we appreciated most was that it came with an Ethernet port, although Acer was forced to make one that expands to accommodate the cable end in this case. That’s useful, especially getting the system over the tsunami of updates that any new Windows machine will be subjected.

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