2 in 1

[daqinggegg]

Looking at purchasing a 2 in 1/convertible lap top, budget around 500 pounds. One that has caught my eye is HP Pavilion 14-ba016na, anyone have experience of these? Bit of background, I’m getting on a bit, so not that tech savvy.

I already have many desktops, laptops and tablets of varying age (2 years 12 years most XP, Windows 7 or Android. This will be mainly used on the move. I’m not a fan of touch screens, preferring to have a keyboard.

Once purchased, l will have Windows 7 installed, as l dislike series 10. Open to other suggestions, I may not have thought about, any help appreciated.

[TameRacingDriver]

Do you need to run Windows apps? If not £500 would buy a hell of a Chromebook with the 2in1 functionality you desire.

[daqinggegg]

Thank you for the reply, (http://www.classicshell.net/) I live in China so this link will not open, is there a problem with deleting 10 and replacing with 7? Reading reviews it seamed to be older versions that had a bad screen interface. I will be in the UK for 20 days, but only 2 days of those will be big city, the most will be spent in a rural area of Scotland.

[sly fox]

TameRacingDriver said:

Do you need to run Windows apps? If not £500 would buy a hell of a Chromebook with the 2in1 functionality you desire.

But would it? When i looked at these for a friend earlier on this year - the specs are very particular indeed at that price range.
Not buying yourself something that is future proofed at all with a Chromebook.
Decent models with 4GB+ ram, a half terrabyte disk etc were easily £600+.

i didn't think they looked good value especially given the reliability ratings of some of the manufacturers (ie poor).