Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 101

BUYING GUIDE

typeofsilicontoregularLCDdisplays.Putsimply,
thisallowshigherresolutionsandlowertemperatures,
andalsohappenstobecheapertomanufacture.A
win-win situation, really.
In use, the screen is excellent with great detail,
colours,contrastandviewingangles.Thedownside
toa glass screen is that it’s highly reflective so you
mighthavestruggletoseewhatyou’redoingif
there’sbright light hitting it.
If you didn’t know better, you’d assume it was an IPS
screen, and with those thin bezels, it looks wonderful.

Keyboard and touchpad
The touchpad is large, like the MacBook’s, and with
Windows 10 you can use all sorts of gestures to
navigate: two fingers to scroll up and down, three
fingers to switch between apps and pinch-to-zoom.

The keyboard

has a US layout