Kogan Atlas 11.6in C500 Convertible Laptop

Is this unbelievably cheap Windows 10 offering too good to be true?

“The 11.6-inch touchscreen offers FullHD resolution and is bright enough to be easy to work on.”

The Kogan Atlas 11.6in 2-in-1 was by far the most affordable laptop of the roundup, so you have to be willing to give it a few concessions on this basis alone. The most noticeable of them is that while it isn’t the most compact keyboard of the roundup, it does feel like it thanks to an awkwardly small spacebar that sits too far to the left. There’s also an obvious flex in the soft plastic chassis and sharp edges that’ll press on your hands, particularly on the left since the keyboard skews that way. The hinges have an unnaturally tough feel to them and the power cable is a thin pinhole connection with a large base that looks more like something that powers an electric shaver.

The 11.6-inch touchscreen offers FullHD resolution and is bright enough to be easy to work on, although the viewing angle isn’t great and you do get a lot of glare from the glossy screen finish.

Rather than shipping with Windows 10 S as seen on some of its siblings, the Atlas 11.6in C500 Convertible Laptop actually comes with a full Windows 10 Pro OS, which is pretty amazing when you consider that this OS retails for an RRP of $339 – i.e. more than the cost of this laptop.

The Atlas C500 had faster flash memory than the Lenovo Ideapad Duet Chromebook at over 200MB/s for both read and write speeds and while the 27Wh battery life isn’t exactly great, it’s enough to get half a day’s work done before you need to charge.

An exceptionally good value device for those that can handle a handful of minor concessions.