With laptops in 2015, the situation went ugly — most of the manufacturers making a fool of himself, set in last year’s model processors Intel Broadwell / the item has been added and the GeForce 900-series (also half consisting of renamed junk) and proudly reported on the release of new models of laptops. In General, be mentally prepared for the fact that the model range of the makers of mobile PCs in a variety of similar attempts of the authors of “Zhiguli” from our socialist past.
And Yes, we too in shock from the prices on the equipment, but in the case of tablets today have to put up with a starting price of about 12 thousand rubles — more affordable models in most cases are unsold on the shelves and weak by the standards of 2015 “illiquid” or something promising on paper, but in fact assembled from selected components scall. In the case of laptops expect to spend a minimum of 20 thousand rubles, if you want to get something more than just obese typewriter with fans.
State employees
ASUS ZenPad Z380KL
The funny thing is that when you create a new line of tablets the people of Taiwan and did not think about how topical this would be “Zen tablets” for the Russians. In the manual ASUS proceeded only from the fact that to change the preferences of fans of the iPad they will not succeed, for hybrid models, transformers are conducive to such experiments, the platform is Windows, and the most beneficial step will be the creation of explanatory models for the price, bordering on “rootless Chinese”.
Sensible was not all tablets are among the processors that Intel agreed to sell at a ridiculous price, wormed and poor low-power Atom x3 C3230. With it budget tablets run at stuffed with computer virus in which “Yandex.Bar” fights “Defender Mail.ru”. That is, the tablet very slowly, reluctantly and smoothly responds to the simplest actions in the system.
Therefore, when choosing a tablet ASUS ZenPad, we suggest that you avoid modifications with index ZsomethingZ C orsomethingCG. Otherwise, the buyer is guaranteed to run up to its horrific slowness of the gadget.
Specifically Z380KL very good for 13 thousand ($165) Taiwanese offer an eight-inch dual-SIM tablet with 4G looks quite reasonable proposal. At first glance it might seem that expensive, but it’s only because you haven’t played aggregators in the Russian Internet shops. Now — go and be astonished to look at a budget price ZenPad with fresh eyes.
ASUS ZenPad Z380KL
For what merits?
- pedigreed Quad core processor — no longer a luxury, but for immediate needs they suffice
- 4G and a couple of slots for SIM-cards: the tablet is able to work on my cell phone in hand and Bluetooth headset
- a lot of bells and whistles for instant or subsequent tuning, including covers with battery or stereo speakers
How much is it?
13 000 rubles
Details:
The processor first of all. Review tablet ASUS ZenPad 8.0
Lenovo ideapad 100
The Chinese are doing something strange and release not much different structurally laptops under dozens of different indexes — without prior preparation and Cribs they confused even themselves representatives of the brand. The idea is that clarity needs to make numerical indexes (like BMW 1 to 7 series, according to the degree of slope), but the irony is that the “younger” IdeaPad in high-end versions are better equipped than the following in the hierarchy of notebooks. It turns out hodgepodge of wild, but Lenovo say that “it’ll all blow over soon”, that it was just side effects when switching from old to new products.
We’ll see. In any case, the starting point of the “folk” laptop Lenovo has already formed is the ideapad series 100 (that is, pejorative lowercase letters). Part of the modifications of this laptop is based on “junk” tablet Pentium N3540, we are interested only sane performance version of the laptop with the Core i3 chip. And under this sauce “hundredth” ideapad worthy of attention, because it can get quite agile and modern processor Core Broadwell i3-5005U less than 30 thousand rubles.
Lenovo ideapad 100
For what merits?
- balanced “state employee” still with a sane price tag
- Intel Core i3-5005U “the city” equal in power to cool ultrabook PCs of the recent past
- comes without the damned drives”tractelec” optical drive, and due to this became a bit thinner
How much is it?
27 000 — 32 000 rubles
Details:
Lenovo launches ideapad laptop base 100
Technical progress creeps forward even despite the fact that Intel laptops have long occupied a monopoly position. Therefore, new budget laptops “go” with the same speed as the old ultrabooks. But make no mistake, because ideapad 100 is the fruit of saving, and therefore Nesmachny display and modest length of battery life will be companions of the owner of such a model already from the date of purchase. But competitors will be even more expensive, so the choice for those who are looking for modern affordable laptop, still small.
The middle class
ASUS X555LB
Choose a cheap laptop would be to play something, in 2015 became even more difficult after the release of Intel Broadwell chips and the item has been added producers almost unanimously believe that buyers will integrated graphics be enough for any needs. In a pinch, inexpensive models are equipped nikakuschy graphics AMD Radeon R5 M335, which is almost equal to the built-in processor, the line speed and the fact that the graphics chip does not “bite” a memory from the RAM and the photos in Adobe Photoshop were processed slightly faster than in the capacity only of the processor.
Former expanse with discrete graphics middle class no: dominance NVIDIA has led to the fact that even the GeForce 940M (renamed “840” with new label) — it is “expensive and prestigious”, and a less powerful GPU for games not fit the word at all.
Of mass and efficient models buyers should also look at the Acer Aspire E5-573G-58XK (it is, however, not so often found in retail) or HP PAVILION 15-ab200 (Americans the prices are jumping a completely magical way, so the options for Core i5 / 940M send in a certain direction). And we will focus on less ambitious, but more widely used and still with good “iron” point of view ASUS X555LB.
ASUS X555LB
For what merits?
- Intel Core i5-5200U — roughly equal to the low-voltage Core i7 at the best laptops at the turn of the year 2013-2014
- NVIDIA GeForce 940M — World of Tanks on high, GTA 5 on medium, Witcher 3 on a “minimum”
- 6 GB of RAM already in the basic version!
How much is it?
46 000 rubles
Model, frankly, is not new and went on sale in the fall of 2014, since replacing the CPU and graphics card for more modern versions. Its main disadvantage is frankly cheap TN-matrix. In General, I advise you to look at the image quality before buying to decide if you will accept this picture quality.
Huawei MediaPad X2
One of the last (if not last) high-quality 7-inch models in the history of planetastroy. High-quality and clear display, sea RAM, 4G telephony. Too much, however, asking for money for a model that nee was sold under the “discount”brand Honor. But considering that after the release of Nexus 7 2013 model year compact tablet turned into a shameful and collected from garbage parodies of normal technique, the alternatives MediaPad X2 just yet.
Huawei MediaPad X2
For what merits?
- bright Full HD display of 7 inches
- metal case
- compact (by the standards of 7-domowych gadgets) sizes
- quality rear camera
- fast OCTA core processor
- support voice calls
How much is it?
23 000 rubles
Details:
The rare species. Review tablet Huawei MediaPad X2
As you can see, the tablet is unique in its kind and for lovers of single devices under multimedia calls and stuff when a large display is highly recommended.
Xiaomi MiPad 2
After years of attempts to create the “iPad killer” army of producers-losers disappeared from the tablet market itself. iPad at the same time can live, and live, even in a deserted version of the mini. Only that he is dear to this day, especially with the wonderful exchange rate in 2015. And a worthy alternative to have only Chinese Xiaomi MiPad 2, which we now discuss.
Xiaomi MiPad 2
For what merits?
- Retina-like display of 7.9 inches
- metal case
- powerful Intel Atom x5-Z8500 — quite a competitor to the Snapdragon 808 (Lumia 950, LG G4)
- price lower than iPad mini
- Android or 10 Windows to choose
How much is it?
20 000 — 27 000 rubles
Details:
The tablet Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 is officially presented
Strictly speaking, the prices for a novelty in China will range from $160 to $200, but don’t underestimate the greed of speculators and the initial deficit. In General, if you want to find the best alternative to the iPad mini — look for this Chinese tablet on display online stores.
ASUS Zenbook UX305FA
For $680 (24 thousand rubles at the old rate) today you can buy not only bulky multimedia notebook or “state employees” more or less qualitative matrix is impressively thin and light ultrabook in the same amount now also fit. Based on “low-fat” chips Core M “jeonbuk” is in the work fanless and therefore completely silent. And indeed, all the virtues of the flagships present in it. Well, see for yourself:
ASUS Zenbook UX305FA
For what merits?
- cool bright matte Full HD display on a 13.3 inches
- metal case
- weight 1.18 kg with 12 mm thickness is absolutely not burdensome to transport dimensions
- easy to upgrade. To change the SSD simply loosen the screws on the bottom and disassemble it
- great endurance, silent operation
How much is it?
48 000 rubles
Details:
Asus ZenBook UX305 ultrabook with a thickness of 12 mm goes on sale
Any of the modern pompous ultrabooks will cost you more. If you do not nourish illusions regarding the performance of the Core M chip (and in our modification “under the hood” working version 5Y10, which is approximately equal to the base Core i3 generation Ivy Bridge and Haswell) and to accept the fact that games UX305FA is not suitable at all in any way — the flaws in such a model, especially not find.
Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70
In continuation of the nostalgic series “can’t get them anymore” — not the coolest flagship 10-inch tablet. There are, of course, more brutal and powerful (especially in games) ASUS ZenPad 10, but with the quality of display he has something things did not work out, and display for a 10 inch device Oh how important. Proceeding from these considerations, we prefer the Tab 2 A10-70.
Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70
For what merits?
- 10-inch display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, excellent colour and contrast
- Dolby Atmos is nothing supernatural or flag, just the sound is good tablet
- modern chetyrekhyadernykh MediaTek MT6732, with 2 GB of RAM for games but for everything else as good
- great endurance
How much is it?
18 000 rubles
Details:
The tablet Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70 appeared on the Russian market
A wonderful time to live — except that the average characteristics of the tablet, no matter how much I look at the Windows — will not find a more sensible model until the price categories “of 40 thousand and above.” Army of famous and not so producers of the tablets scattered in the shortest time and now hopes to profit from “Lopatino”. See where rush these untalented Lord, after that the smartphones will cease to be mega popular type of electronics.
Igrovye
MSI GE62 Apache 6QC
The choice was easy to predict — the underlying MSI gaming coexists with the “multimedijnyj” on dead low voltage processors on one side, very promising, but unnecessarily expensive Gaming HP PAVILION 15-ak000, as well as obsolete and disappearing from sale Acer Aspire V15 Nitro, ASUS N551JM. Given that last year’s “Republic of gamers” (G551) for some reason is more expensive, but there is also a Quad Core i5 has delivered the item has been added after years of operation, “chipping” Core i5-4200H… you Can take, in General.
MSI GE62 Apache 6QC
For what merits?
- GeForce GTX 960M — “high” preset graphics in Full HD everywhere, except curves igrodely Ubisoft open world
- Quad-core Intel Core i5-6300HQ: no Hyper-Threading, but cheaper predecessor and for games — Makoto
- high quality matte Full HD PLS display
- comparable to “pumped up multimedijnyj” and a weaker junk price
How much is it?
66 000 — 70 000 rubles
Differences from prajmaline laptops, of course, there is an SSD in most modifications is not pre-installed (basically, buy it and install it yourself — no problem), memory in basic versions only 4 GB (upgrade up to 8 GB = + 1500 RUB.), and the case feels cheap, because of what the laptop itself is more like a painted craftsmen “the state employee” than the slot machine at 70 thousand. But if you still “go, and do not have cheap” is the most promising of the native slot machines option as at the end of 2015 — beginning of 2016.
GIGABYTE Aorus X3 Plus v5
As you may have noticed earlier, we are not complaining electronics that manufacturers are too lazy to take on the “white” Russian market: don’t want the Russians bought your products — a flag in hands. But there are such models for which a sin not to hunt, of course, if finances allow.
Specifically this GIGABYTE gaming great from the point of view of filling even by itself, and at 13.9-inch case is stunning beautiful! If you want analogies — it’s a Mini Cooper with the engine from a Ferrari and the interior, as the flagship of Mercedes.
GIGABYTE Aorus X3 Plus
For what merits?
- Core i7-6700HQ — new powerful gaming Quad core
- the GeForce GTX 970m graphics GDDR5 6GB — any, even the shamelessly gluttonous games on maximum settings in Full HD
- 13.9-inch display with a resolution of 3200×1800 and movies in normal quality watch, and owners of flagship smartphones imbued respect
- no mechanical hard disk, instead of them — a tiny, fast and capacious SSD format M. 2
How much is it?
~ 200 000 rubles
Most interesting is that with all portability of the laptop, it is not a fashion pacifier — iron works all the money, no throttling or “Oh, we slightly miscalculated”. A wonderful selection for wealthy extremists.
MSI Titan SLI GT80S 6QF 29TH Anniversary Edition
Let us abstract for a moment from the prices on the laptops (what should we care how much not to buy them, right?) and look at the most cool and powerful laptop 2015. Here he is huge at 18.4-inch GT80 of the latest generation. But not simple, and not even gold (already had), and stuffed with originating from desktop computers. Two GTX 980 in its “full” desktop version — they’re in full-sized PCs are rare chic not to mention laptops.
MSI Titan SLI GT80S 6QF 29TH Anniversary Edition
For what merits?
- two high performance notebook graphics card, to “bend” the most arrogant and demanding games for several more years
- Intel Core i7-6920HQ — the most elegant the processor from the newest generation of the item has been added
- four ultra-fast (NVMe, comrades) SSD can swing 100-200 megabits anything to install one and play the second without slow downs
- mechanical keypad (with clear clicks, like on a vintage computer, but more noble and robust design)
- stereo system with subwoofer
How much is it?
$3400 (~ 250 thousand)
Details:
Review non-anniversary version of the laptop with laptop (not a desktop GTX 980M)
Record without fear and without reproach — expensive, exclusive, heavy (but still lighter than your system unit with monitor, slavomisla and speakers together) and memorable. Disturbing brain thing even though “we ain’t gonna live”.
Flagships
Dell XPS 15 (9550)
Really impressive models in 2015 at Dell appeared little the Americans almost with his head devoted himself to computers enterprise class, which, though brutal in its functionality, yet simple to a person who “just came to buy a laptop” uninteresting. And yet, there are the flagship of Dell laptops “highlight” that they are not lost among their own kind.
The XPS series 2015 model year, this feature is “frameless” display. Rather, frame it still is, but it’s so small that the rest of laptops looks “CRT telly” next creation of American engineers. As an additional argument for getting on our list was the flagship iron — good top-end ultrabook turned out.
Dell XPS 15 (9550)
For what merits?
- luxury display with extremely thin frames and permissions between Full HD and 4K on select
- flagship not-chetyrekhyadernye low-voltage Intel Core i5 and i7
- GeForce GTX 960M — on play, or in the graphical and video editors
- thickness 17 mm (almost 2 times less, than at MSI GT62’s with the same hardware above)
How much is it?
100 — 150 thousand rubles
Details:
Dell produces laptops XPS 13 and 15 on the basis of the item has been added in Russia
And no one said it would be cheap. Cheap — in the beginning of this article, and flagship laptops in the 2015-2016 year will start with a price of 100 thousand rubles and this will have to be reconciled. Dell XPS 15 is good in that it remains a classic (without flirting with your USB-C instead of all of the connectors and the modes of transformation) ultrabook with good structural improvements. Not counting the financial issue, an obstacle to its purchase can only be a selfless love for Apple technology.
Microsoft Surface Book
This place could be top-end 13-inch Lenovo Yoga Yoga 900, but it, first, though, and debuted in October, did not bother until the end of 2015 to arrive in the Russian retail, and secondly, it is very similar to the mistakes based on the “dead” fiasco Yoga 3 Pro Core M low-power which has replaced the CPU in a healthy person the actual Core i7-6500U the item has been added.
But who is there else? HP Spectre x360? Handsome, Yes. But after a more powerful processor because of the outrageous work of system of cooling “I pooped myself” and give in to his less-powerful variations of the competition, even an upgraded variant with chips the item has been added already outright alarming. So, when talking about flagships, we welcome original tablet laptop transformer authored by Microsoft.
Microsoft Surface Book
For what merits?
- the laptop like a mouse or tablet — the original mount to the keyboard allows all magic
- display aspect ratio 3:2 in spite of widescreen “tank leak” to competitors
- Core i5/i7 the item has been added processors in the latest fashion
- poligrafa GeForce 940M inside the keyboard
- digital pen for homegrown artists (and just to spite iPad Pro)
How much is it?
130 — 215 thousand roubles
Details:
Microsoft has unveiled its first notebook Surface Book
Ever wondered why Apple knows how to make luxury vehicles, and Microsoft is not? That’s proof that he can. You how many pieces to make? Wait, where did you umegae…
Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet
With “most-most” tablet to accept the decision was not easy. No, it is clear that the iPad Pro is stretched senseless on the ground of the argument “I have my mother, the artist” the ordinary Apple tablet, but Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 with all its advantages has now become a Korean iPad mini/Air with Super AMOLED and “on top form” (with minimum thickness and weight).
Therefore, among all of this mutual and autocamioane soul somehow lies to most Japanese 10-inch flagship — the Xperia Z4 Tablet. Very pleasant experience he left after testing.
Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet
For what merits?
- as skinny as a iPad Air2/mini 4, only while still and water resistant — there is a reason to take a bath and watch your favorite TV series, for example
- Snapdragon 810 (damn him) works here in full force, though it “warms up” the top part in the games
- cool bright and clear, displays 2560×1440 pixels
- good stereo speakers, good camera
How much is it?
42 000 rubles
Details:
Japanese perfectionism. Review tablet Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet
One of the best examples that not iPad’om one alive lover tablets. All lovers of 10-inch models is highly recommended.
Apple MacBook
“Just MacBook” is not “Simply Maria”, because from a technical point of view it is difficult — just look at the keyboard and how hard engineers fought for rational use of the area of the topcase. And trackpad? Look how huge trackpad! And the thickness of this laptop when closed is the same as in 3.5-inch smartphone that MegaFon has recently packs sold to its customers. Of course, a sober mind will always find a bunch of arguments against it, but just see this laptop in person, and then make an informed opinion.
Apple MacBook 2015
For what merits?
- extremely slim and ergonomically adjusted the laptop in a metal case
- razor-sharp display of 2304×1440 pixels at 12 inches
- Intel Core M — not God knows what the CPU in terms of power, but capable of everyday tasks even without fan
How much is it?
95 000 — 135 000 rubles
Details:
The laptop from the future to which are not present. Review Of Apple MacBook 2015
Let’s just ride along the pathetic shortcomings of this model. A single USB-C to charge and just makes it impossible for even the simultaneous use of flash drives and chargers — it really is. But about the same scale of loss felt by Apple in 2008 when Steve jobs presented the laptop (Oh, the horror!) no drive for DVD/BluRay. Users of mobile phones has recently experienced that as you increase the video resolution it will become too cumbersome to transfer via Bluetooth. Here anyone today care about such nonsense?
Intel Core M “doglover” by the standards of the MacBook. Strange thing — but for Windows it was quite usable. Isn’t it the time to do liposuction vaunted MacOS, gentlemen of the jury?
It’s not even a separate “technological advances” that are shoved in a minimalist MacBook — the General impression is that all the following weaknesses cannot obscure. You know that keira Knightley and Jennifer Lawrence is a very lousy cook? Whether this fact is fatal for you, something opportunity?.. It is the same.