Need Opinions on Atlas X350 Laptop from Kogan- only $359?

Geekomatic on 19/09/2018 - 22:41
Last edited 19/09/2018 - 22:42

This is the laptop:

https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-atlas-ultraslim-x350-note…

I actually have one here with me tonight that I'm working on for a woman who locked herself out setting it up- lol.

It feels like a really good build quality. All-metal, brushed (no smudging) silver. Keyboard & touchpad are nice, too.

It's light-weight and has a decent amount of ports. My daughter said it looks like her friend's Macbook! 1920x1080 screen, as well.

It comes with Win 10 on the internal 64GB eMMC but has an M.2/2240 slot so you can add a faster, larger boot drive. This slot has it's own, external door to reach it!

According to the info on the CPU, you ought to have a max RAM of 8GB (comes with 4), but I don't see it listed anywhere on Kogan?

Of course, there are always "buts": the N4000 Celeron CPU @ 1.1Ghz. It scores all right unless you hit anything needing more than two cores.

However, for $359?

I'm seriously thinking of grabbing one for my work. I need something light and this looks fairly tough, too.

Opinions? Does anyone here have this? If so, have you installed the M.2? Have you upgraded RAM? Can it be upgraded?

Cheers

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  • AdamFury on 20/09/2018 - 00:43

    Reviews all look really good especially this helpful one on Whirlpool.

    The fact you can add a M.2 drive is interesting I wonder if it could take advantage of it with it's processor.

    I would expect the RAM to almost certainly be soldered into the board.

    But, for the price it looks very decent.

    • Geekomatic on 20/09/2018 - 01:55

      Somewhere, I saw "two slots" mentioned but now I can't find the page I saw it on…

      Damn— why didn't they drop a bit better CPU— I'd have paid another $40-50 because the rest really looks good to me.

      Ta

    • Geekomatic on 20/09/2018 - 01:56

      PS: your review link goes to kogan, not WP.

  • AdamFury on 20/09/2018 - 10:03

    Ah god it does too. Meant to link here

  • Geekomatic on 20/09/2018 - 11:58

    I received an email back from Kogan this morning.

    Unfortunately, the X350 does NOT have upgradeable RAM. Damn.

    Oh well. I suppose if you're only running the basics, 4GB will do you. Just would have been good to have the upgrade path, especially considering they went to the effort of allowing for the M.2 add-in?

    • scrimshaw on 20/09/2018 - 15:17

      For $511.20 after POLLEN coupon code, gets you a refurbished Lenovo Miix which already has 8 gigs of RAM and a 128GB NVME SSD.

      the Kogan is $359, adding a SATA M2 SSD would cost you lets say around $50 for a low end 128GB drive, but with only 4GB of non-upgradable RAM, a fully upgraded Atom-based Kogan machine that costs $410 still falls greatly short of the performance of a Lenovo Miix running a Core i3 processor.

      The only trade off is with a i3 instead of an Atom / Pentium Gold series is you'll get significantly shorter battery life.

      • Geekomatic on 21/09/2018 - 13:01

        Right, and that longer life is somewhat important to me. Damn Kogan for not going that bit further and dropping in the 8GB the system can run! I'd have paid the $40 more for it. The thing looks like a Mac and is really well made.

        Think there's any trickery that can be done with swap that'd help the 4GB situation? This is fairly new territory for me.

        Ta

        Edit: with the refurb, chances are it's the original battery and lifespan may be less from the start.

        • scrimshaw on 21/09/2018 - 13:05

          Having an SSD helps to alleviate some of the pains caused by lack of RAM.

          You'd just have to re-image the system and make your SSD the primary boot device and install Windows on it.

  • photochris on 26/11/2018 - 19:12

    The price of these seems variable. I bought one on Friday 23 Nov 2018 for $349 + $10 post from the Dick Smith site, following the link from StaticIce. The price on the Kogan site the same day was $399.

    What is the cheapest SSD that would fit?

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