Final rebuilt/fixed old Thinkpad X260 VS [NFS Hot pursuit + screen recording] Intel Core i5-6300U
What is new?
-Added a 128GB SSD - faster and lighter - Cloning the OS to the SSD is easy
-The 128GB full SD card has arrived; It is used as extra storage and a bridge to synchronizes files between computer;
This old laptop is powerful enough to play this game while recording the screen and sound. It's plenty powerful for more productive tasks. The Intel Core i5-6300U is actually very fast, but this ultrabook has an inadequate heat sink and fan configuration which limits the CPU's potential greatly. It's still powerful enough for what I need it to do though, namely typing, and the keyboard is great and enjoyable to type on.
This "ultrabook" is slightly heavy in today's ultrabook standard, but I like my laptops to have slightly extra weight, nothing that I can't handle. The 12.5" screen and the X260’s form factor is absolutely the best and ideal design, as a tool to do some work on. If you have bigger fingers, go for the 14". 15"+ is not really a laptop, but a desktop disguised in a laptop form.
PS. The X260 is perfect for this game. Super smooth especially without screen recording. It's a capable little machine to do some serious work, but I am only intended to use this as a writer and coder. The small screen and good quality keyboard, and relatively small form factor are just perfect for that. This laptop will run Windows 7 forever, and I am not connecting it to the internet. Later, I may change the OS to XP or Linux. Linux is not ideal for a laptop not intended to be connected to the internet.