This is very much not for beginner users, but I have installed both CloudReady from Neverware, and PrimeOS on this laptop and both worked quite well. The accelerometer isn’t detected under either of these operating systems so you don’t get the benefit of automatic switching to tablet or tent mode though. But everything else worked, including the touch screen which surprised me. If you have provided us with a mobile telephone number, our large screen couriers will send a text message or call you to confirm the day of delivery.

Built in microphone which can be useful for creating screencasting videos or making those video calls. P.P.S. If you’re a bit more adventurous, you can upgrade the storage space on the Geo Flex 2 in 1 – instructions are available in this article. Gigabyte eMMC storage. This is the only area I’ve really found that lets this laptop down. It would be better for Geoflex to have spent a few quid more and put 64 Gigabytes in it. But, the USB3.0 expansion works well so it’s not such a big issue. The storage space on this laptop can be upgraded with an M.2 SATA drive too. Megapixel front facing camera. Not a great powerhouse of a camera and you wouldn’t want to use it to take photos. But it does suffice if you want to video call anyone with Skype for example. Tent mode or tablet mode both work well with Windows 10. The inbuilt accelerometer works well to detect screen orientation and the touch screen is accurate and responsive.Don’t use the SDCard interface that comes with the Geo Flex – it’s a USB2.0 interface and horribly slow by comparison to either the eMMC installed or a USB3 thumb drive. So, I now have just Windows itself on the eMMC and all my Applications and Data are on a SanDisk Ultra Fit 64G USB card which is barely noticeable at the side of the machine.

My main machine is a MacBook Pro 15″ from 2015. It’s a beast, still even today being a processing power house that does everything I need it to. Except for one thing really – it’s not very portable. But they did have the Geo 2 in 1, 11.6″ Flex laptop which runs Windows 10 instead. And when I decided I’d buy that instead the sales assistant told me in no uncertain terms not to. This little laptop works a treat for me. Despite Curry’s sales people trying to put me off. It’s no power house and it definitely won’t replace your daily drive if you’re a graphic designer or needing anything demanding. But for writing blog posts, or administering machine remotely – which is what I wanted it for, it is absolutely perfect. Full 802.11ac wifi capability with dual band. This means you can connect to the faster 5Ghz wifi that is becoming more common these days. Having said that, when I broke the laptop by installing PrimeOS onto the main eMMC and finding it didn’t work quite as well as I’d hoped, I also broke the restore image partition. This meant that I couldn’t re-install Windows directly from the laptop.If you want to have a play with either of these operating systems on the Geo Flex 2 in 1, you can create a bootable live USB system which means you don’t lose the Windows operating system. Booting from USB is pretty much the same speed as booting from the internal eMMC to be fair. Customer Support So, does the GeoFlex 2-in-1 laptop do what I want it to, or was the sales person from Currys correct? This little laptop is definitely lightweight and very portable. The touchscreen and tent/tablet mode do make it quite versatile. GeoFlex 230 is a 13.3-inch convertible Windows 10 laptop with a FHD touchscreen. A premium full-metal exterior and 360-degree rotating hinge deliver style and versatility tablet mode for the sofa, laptop mode for the desk. GeoFlex 230 is powered by an Intel Pentium processor, 4GB RAM & 128GB SSD. Connectivity includes USB-C, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, 3.5mm, microSD and Bluetooth. AC Wi-Fi, 2MP webcam, dual microphone and speakers are built-in. If you have provided us with a mobile telephone number, DPD couriers will send a text message on the day of delivery advising of an approximate time slot for the delivery.

Good battery life for every day situations. Isn’t going to be great for gaming demands (but then this isn’t designed for that). Can get a bit slow if Windows Defender is scanning or something is using that eMMC drive a bit hard. Incredibly portable – which was my main reason for purchasing. Very thin and lightweight and doesn’t take up much space at all. Great if you’re going on holiday but need a full blown Windows experience to manage things while you’re away. Windows 10 comes with a handy feature called Storage Spaces which helps reduce clutter and alongside this you can also setup where New Applications are installed, New Photos, New Music etc can also be set to be stored on the USB drive instead. This reduces the need to fill up your C: drive eMMC storage and helps this machine run much nicer.Full HD touch screen with excellent clarity and contrast making colours look nice. I haven’t tried it outside on a sunny day yet though. GeoFlex 230 has a 360-degree rotating hinge, allowing you to repurpose your laptop for the job at hand. Use GeoFlex in laptop mode as your portable workspace, prop it up in tent mode as a mini movie screen or make it your recipe assistant in the kitchen. With flexibility at its core, GeoFlex 230 is ready for anything. If the item was delivered by Royal Mail or if you collected the item yourself then you will be required to return it at your expense via the same method. In this article I review the GEO Flex 2 in 1 laptop and decide whether it’s worth the price that Curry’s PC World ask for it.

x USB2.0 connected SDCard reader. Don’t use this for regular storage though, it’s too slow. But, it does allow you to get photos off your digital camera quite well. Storage, RAM and processor are not upgradeable – at least not easily if at all. The RAM and processor are adequate and most laptops won’t allow processor upgrades anyway. But the storage is a problem. Update: The storage can in fact be upgraded. Curry’s PC World are notoriously bad for providing support, although I am only going by historic anecdote here as I’ve not used them for support issues for quite some time so they may have improved a lot.It won’t do what you want it to do”– she exclaimed, “It’s really only meant to be a kids laptop, it’s really under powered and doesn’t have much storage space either” Curry’s PC World Store Assistant – 2019 Please note any quoted time slot is approximate and does not guarantee delivery between those times.