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BEST 2-IN-1 LAPTOPS UNDER £300

The 2-in-1 laptops offer two form factors in one and fulfil the duties of both laptops and tablets. If you are a graphic designer who wants a touchscreen with a laptop then you need to buy a 2-in-1. If you are a business pro who’s looking for a laptop that serves as a tablet when needed and is easier to carry, then you also need to splurge on a 2-in-1 laptop. 2-in-1 laptops offer a wide array of functions while staying inside an affordable price scale. We have done some digging and rounded up the best 2-in-1 laptops under £300 for you:

LENOVO CHROMEBOOK C330 – £299.99

Key Features

Processor: MediaTek, 2.1 GHz Processor

Size: 11.6 inches, 1366 x 768

Storage: 4 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD

Graphics: Integrated Graphics / On-Board

Operating System: Chrome OS

This 2-in-1 laptop boasts a powerful MediaTek 2.1 GHz Processor that delivers over-the-top performance and never lets the computer slow down. It comes with a 10-point touchscreen featuring an IPS display for viewing videos and movies in high-definition easily.

The Lenovo Chromebook C330 always stays up-to-date and offers the latest in digital security for the purpose of keeping your passwords and sensitive data safe. Experience fast computing, with respect to day-to-day tasks, with Lenovo Chromebook C330’s powerful processing, eMMC storage, integrated graphics, and LPDDR3 memory. It also comes with a long battery life of up to 10 hours that lets you do your work without any disturbance and maintains your focus. Use your 2-in-1 in tablet, tent, laptop, or stand mode. Transfer data to multiple devices with USB-C, USB 3.0, micro SD, Bluetooth 4.1, and 2 x 2 Wi-Fi ac.

HP X2 10.1” – £249.99

Key Features

Processor: Intel Atom, 1.44 GHz Processor

Size: 10.1 inches, 1280 x 800

Storage: 2 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD

Graphics: On-Board / Integrated Graphics

Operating System: Windows 10, Home

Similar to the best 2-in-1 laptops, the HP x2 boasts a powerful processor, high definition display, large memory, and a wide touchscreen. It is made to meet business requirements as it allows you to go beyond tablet and laptop functions with multiple modes including watch, write, and share that are perfect for office use, business pros and mobile sales force in the field.

It features an Intel Atom 1.44 GHz Processor that makes creating content, viewing files, sharing documents, and finishing proposals very easy without any slowdown. Maximize productivity with multiple connectivity options such as micro HDMI, USB 3.0, and USB-C™, etc. With long battery life and a 5MP camera, it is a steal. Give your business a boost with its business-class warranty, TPM security, modern manageability features, and protection options from HP.

LENOVO MIIX 320 – £219.99

Key Features

Processor: Intel Atom, 1.44 GHz Processor

Size: 10.1 inches, 1280 x 800

Storage: 4 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD

Graphics: On-Board Graphics / Integrated

Operating System: Windows 10, Professional

Lenovo Miix 320 is one of the most accommodating 2-in-1 laptops that flips from a full-fledged laptop with a keyboard to an interactive multimedia-rich tablet effortlessly. It’s Intel® Atom™ processor delivers high productivity with its advanced technology, energy-efficient chip enabling, and processing capabilities. It is very lightweight and ultrathin and occupies less surface area. Stay fast and focused on the all-new Windows 10 Pro that offers a seamless browsing experience, thus making it easier to share, discover, read, and get things done.

It also comes with an island key keyboard and precision touchpad that deliver a smooth typing experience and minimize typos. With 10 hours of battery life and a crystal clear display you can watch movies and videos for as long as you want, and the Dolby® Advanced Audio™ will make your experience even better.

HP X2 10-P000NA – £149.99

Key Features

Processor: Intel Atom, 1.44 GHz Processor

Size: 10.1 inches, 1280 x 800

Storage: 2 GB RAM, 32 GB SSD

Graphics: Integrated Graphics / On-Board

Operating System: Windows 10, Home

The HP x2 10-p000na boasts an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor with Intel HD Graphics that offers unmatched performance with an immersive display for the best user experience. This 2-in-1 laptop goes beyond tablet and notebook functions with its share, watch and write modes that work perfectly in the office and are ideal for the mobile sales force and business pros in the field. It also offers incredible manageability features including TPM security, business-class warranty, and protection from HP support and services. Maximize your productivity by multi-tasking regardless of where you are.

Transfer data at lightning-fast speed via USB 3.0, Micro HDMI, USB-C™, and a wide range of compatible accessories. Owing to its tablet class thinness, feel free to take it everywhere with you. Enjoy an undisturbed work experience with its 11 hours of battery life and a 50% charge in 30 minutes.

SUMMING IT UP

The best 2-in-1 laptops increase productivity and performance. They promote multi-tasking and make lag time feel like a thing of the past. We hope our collection of the best 2-in-1 laptops under £300 will help you in finding your right match for a laptop on a very affordable budget.

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karingottschalk · 7 years

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Fujifilm’s GFX 50S medium format digital camera is more revolutionary than the most commonly shared images of it suggest. That is the first thought I had when I began exploring then downloading the product shots at Fujifilm UK’s image bank and I think it is only going to really sink in when more photographers than just the few manage to try one out.

The press images hinting at the GFX 50S being more than meets the eye prompted me to download them all and publish them here, below. Specifications lists like the one further down the page are well and good, but seeing is where we will understand the real nature of this camera and its accessories.

The most obvious way of looking at the GFX 50S is as a larger version of the Fujifilm X-T2, but with a medium format sensor instead of an APS-C one. And in a way, that is correct. The GFX 50S has the external form factor of a DSLR except for the fact that we know the GFX 50S – with S, we assume, standing for SLR-like –is most certainly a mirrorless camera with all that implies about its lack of mirror slap and its ability to use an electronic or a mechanical shutter.

But then dig a little deeper.

The Camera

That pentaprism-like electronic viewfinder (EVF) unit is removable and yet, without it, the GFX 50S remains perfectly functional but as something more resembling a small view camera. Instead of a ground glass, it has a high resolution rear LCD screen.

So does the X-Pro and X-T2, like a slew of other excellent contemporary mirrorless and, for that matter, DSLR, cameras, all providing a live view that is perfectly adequate for using to compose, focus and create your photographs.

Contemporary mirrorless devices push digital cameras beyond the limitations of analog cameras in ways that mean I for one can never go back.

Fujifilm’s X-Pro2, for example, might be considered three cameras in one, in analog terms. In one way it is a small view camera not unlike the 120 roll film Linhof Technika 70, one of two Linhof Technika cameras with which I learned professional photography, the other being a Linhof Super Technika 4″x5″ sheet film camera with optional roll film magazines and a case full of accessories.

Although purchasing my own Linhof was beyond reach, the lessons learned on those two amazing cameras have stayed with me for life. They intimately shaped my portrait photography style.

Even when I used other view cameras, usually field cameras, for my work as a magazine portrait photographer, I often did so with a Linhof variable format 120 roll film magazine for more shots, faster operating speed and the choice of shooting square, rectangular or panoramic aspect ratios.

While I often find myself using the monitor of my X-Pro2 and other digital cameras as if a small view camera’s ground glass, there is no substitute for the real thing. It is all about the experience on both sides of the camera.

For me, a contemplative experience of care and precision. For my subject, an experience of respect, sometimes awe, and oftentimes an hypnotic fascination with this remarkable high precision machine into whose eye I was asking them to gaze, unflinchingly.

Then consider the images of the tilting EVF along with the images of the tilting monitor, both so reminiscent of the town lens reflex cameras that provided me with lessons in another way of seeing and photographing.

The Lenses

Although I learned that on an art school Mamiyaflex C330 TLR with interchangeable lenses, I chose Rolleiflex T and Rolleiflex 2.8G cameras for my professional use, for urban documentary and portraiture. All three left me with an appreciation of square format, 1:1 aspect ratio, for those times when I wanted to draw my viewers’ attention in so clearly it was like an arrow into the centre of a bullseye.

All my cameras were secondhand until I discovered 120 roll film rangefinder cameras and 120 roll film DSLRs. I won’t bore you with a list save to say that it was with the rangefinder cameras where I most felt at home due to having discovered Leica M-Series rangefinder cameras as a teenaged press photographer way out in the sticks working it all out for myself.

The Heritage

Rangefinder cameras have a special place in my heart to this day for their immersive window into the world, their sense of deep space and spatial relationships across the frame as well as forward and backwards.

After the demands of commercial work caused me to invest in 120 roll film DSLRs, while conceiving the magazine I later went on to cofound, I discovered Fujifilm’s GX680 Professional series, a remarkable creation combining the best of view cameras with the best of DSLRs, but one which regrettably, I never got to try out.

Another range of Fujifilm analog cameras that I was luckier with were its 120 rangefinder cameras that now live on in my hands in ghostly form as the X-Pro2.

When the late, great photojournalist-turned-landscape photographer Michael Reichmann favourably compared the Canon EOS D30 DSLR’s sensor to Fujifilm Provia 100F film, it was clear that digital photography had attained the ability to match the look of analog.

Fujifilm’s X-Pro 2, X-T2 and the coming X100F with their 24 MP sensors produce image quality far above that of 35mm film, rivalling if not surpassing that of low ISO 120 format film. We have so much to be grateful for.

There is just one thing I am a little peeved about, though, and that is that we have lost the wide variety of cameras we had during the analog era.

We now have remarkable image quality to the degree that images made on medium format DSLRs can surpass the resolution of 8″x10″ sheet film as Mr Reichmann demonstrated in another of his famous reviews.

But what all this testing, side-by-side comparisons, digital up against analog and so on fail to do is consider the experience of the cameras and lenses in question, on both sides of the sensor, and what that contributes to the images we make with them.

Image quality is crucial of course, and I say that as someone who commissioned photographs for 48-sheet posters during my advertising agency days and who now is contemplating a possible return to the art gallery wall.

But for me at least the experience is what reigns supreme and always will.

The Specifications

Click here to download a specifications spreadsheet PDF for the Fujifilm GFX 50S camera.

Recommended Viewing:

More GFX Challenges videos were released to go with the January 2017 announcement of the Fujifilm GFX 50S.

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Bernd Ritschel / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Claire Rosen / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Jan Gonzales pt.2 / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Jonas Dyhr Rask/ FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Knut Koivisto / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Lito Sy / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Sangsun Ogh / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Seiichi Nakmura (中村成一) / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Shiro Hagihara (萩原史郎) / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Supalerk Narubetkraisee / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Victoria Wright/ FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – GFX challenges with Wayne Johns / FUJIFILM

FUJIFILMglobal – FUJIFILM GFX 50S Promotional Video / FUJIFILM

Oliver Wehrli – Fujifilm GFX Challenge with Oliver Wehrli – Schweiz

Image Credits:

Header image by Carmel D. Morris.

Fujifilm’s GFX 50S: New Ways of Seeing and Shooting, More Affordable Big Sensor High IQ Fujifilm's GFX 50S medium format digital camera is more revolutionary than the most commonly shared images of it suggest.

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