Iota Slim

Pared-down portable

LAPTOP | £179 from Amazon www.snipca.com/28407 Once upon a time, netbooks – mini laptops with limited specifications at a low price – were the future. Then along came the iPad. Still, demand for cheap portable PCs never went away. Laptop-tablets like Asus’s Transformers put a bit of life back into the market, and a few full touchscreen tablets with keyboards like the Linx 12X64 (£199 from Amazon www.snipca.com/28408, see our review, Issue 516) have squeezed Windows 10 into budget tablet form. But we don’t see many 200-quid laptops any more. “A sleek shape and big screen, but slow for more complex tasks” Here’s an exception. From a distance, you could mistake its matt aluminium case for a MacBook Air. It doesn’t have such razor-thin front edges, but its screen is…

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