Kuu Brand?

[shoutingsteve]

Anyone ever heard of a Kuu brand laptop?  They are off brand and it looks like they have a decent bang for the buck.  I just needed something to keep under the couch for surfing while I watch TV since my old asus notebook's wifi crapped out (downward spiral from my last post.)  I'm thinking about picking up a Kuu A8 ($350 after tax and shipping, and it comes with windows 10 pro).  The specs look decent, and the price certainly is, but there is strangely little information online about it beyond aliexpress and such sites.

 

 

[Guest]

I would just get a used X250 or X260 Thinkpad for that price. It's a exceptionally well built and compact Ultrabook. 

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Konrad_K said:

I would just get a used X250 or X260 Thinkpad for that price. It's a exceptionally well built and compact Ultrabook. 

Any Thinkpad tbh. I personally think the X-series has the perfect screen size, but some think it is too small.

 

 

OP, also look at the T-series and X1 series.

[Jurrunio]

Older Macbook's clone seems like. Apollo Lake based Celeron.... let's say anything more than surfing the net will be a tall order. Also no idea about its quality and why it's so cheap, could be a stock-clearing phase product.

[shoutingsteve]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Any Thinkpad tbh. I personally think the X-series has the perfect screen size, but some think it is too small.

 

 

OP, also look at the T-series and X1 series.

See... I just don't really like the idea of used electronics.  I feel like they have other people's dead skin cells in them... and battery cycles, the screen back light has more hours on it, the components that haven't' failed have that many more miles on them... just not a good recipe for longevity.
So I am guessing, though, that nobody has heard of the brand?

[kelvinhall05]

10 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

I feel like they have other people's dead skin cells in them.

Clean them. Generally they are already clean and don't need much.

10 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

and battery cycles

Generally not a problem, but Thinkpads usually have hotswap batteries and are cheap and easy to find replacements for, so not a problem at all.

10 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

the screen back light has more hours on it

Literally never heard this argument or of a screen backlight failing on a used laptop, much less a Thinkpad.

10 minutes ago, shoutingsteve said:

the components that haven't' failed have that many more miles on them

If it's been treated well (business laptops usually have) or is built well (Thinkpads are quality machines), this isn't a problem.

 

 

Your choice if you want to spend 10 minutes wiping down a laptop and changing thermal paste to get better performance, a better built machine, more IO, more features, more support, more upgradability/repairability, far better value, etc etc etc. I would not buy that laptop. I strongly suggest you get a used Thinkpad.