TP200SA Revitalized
Rescuing an Asus TP200SA – A Lightweight Laptop Story This article is about an Asus TP200SA 2-in-1 covertible laptop, but it applies equally to any lightweight laptop. A lightweight laptop would typically be one with a low-powered processor, a small eMMC hard drive and the bare minimum of ram. In addition, they’re not usually upgradable except for an expansion card slot. This laptop is slim, pretty and very lightweight with all-day battery life. But performance-wise, this laptop was about as bad as it gets; nearly full 32GB eMMC hard drive, 2 GB ram, and a celeron processor. It was painfully slow when I first tried it out, like Go-make-coffee-and-drink-2-cups-while-you-wait-for-reebee slow. My customer wanted to use it for email, viewing online flyers, and web browsing. But she needed to run some fairly heavy apps, like Microsoft Word, from time to time.She was about ready to chuck it and buy a bigger laptop. When I was done with it, she was happy again. It wasn’t a supe...