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Shop›Notebooks›ASUS BR12FT-CS81XA-3Y Intel® N N150 Hybrid (2-in-1) 31 cm (12.2") Touchscreen WUXGA 8 GB DDR5-SDRAM 128 GB UFS Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro Education Grey
ASUS BR12FT-CS81XA-3Y Intel® N N150 Hybrid (2-in-1) 31 cm (12.2") Touchscreen WUXGA 8 GB DDR5-SDRAM 128 GB UFS Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro Education Grey
£348.23
£417.88 inc. VAT
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Key Features
ASUS BR12FT CS81XA-3Y
Intel N-series
N150 / up to 3.6 GHz
Win 11 Pro Education
Intel Graphics
8 GB RAM
128 GB SSD UFS
12.2" touchscreen 1920 x 1200
Product Overview
AI-generated summary
For £348.50 ex-VAT, this looks like a sensible “office light use” machine from ASUS—think reception desk, training rooms, simple CRM/email work, and lots of Teams/Excel-on-the-go. The 2‑in‑1 touch screen is genuinely useful in day-to-day admin (quick mark-ups, forms, swipe-through presentations), and the newer Windows 11 Pro Education angle matters if you’re standardising fleets for schools/colleges. I’d also expect it to be quiet and fast enough for typical browser-based work, which is usually where cheap laptops feel painful.
That said, I wouldn’t buy it for heavy multitasking, anything compute-heavy, or long-term “broad use” for power users. The spec sheet suggests a small, efficient class of laptop—great for the basics, but you’ll feel limits if you expect it to behave like a full business workstation. If your users mainly do web apps, document work, and occasional spreadsheets, it’s good value; if you’re buying for developers, analysts, or anyone running big desktop apps, look elsewhere because you’ll end up wanting more performance sooner than you’d like.
Specifications
Design
Colour nameMineral Grey
Product typeHybrid (2-in-1)
Product colourGrey
Form factorConvertible (Folder)
Housing materialPlastic
Display
Display diagonal12.2 "
Display resolution1920 x 1200 pixels
TouchscreenY
HD typeWUXGA
LED backlightY
Processor
Processor manufacturerIntel
Processor familyIntel N
Processor modelN150
Processor cores4
Processor threads4
Memory
Internal memory8 GB
Internal memory typeDDR5-SDRAM
Memory form factorOn-board
Memory layout (slots x size)1 x 8 GB
Maximum internal memory16 GB
Storage
Total storage capacity128 GB
Storage mediaUFS
Optical drive typeN
Graphics
Discrete graphics card modelNot available
On-board graphics cardY
On-board GPU manufacturerIntel
Discrete graphics cardN
On-board graphics card familyIntel Graphics
Audio
Audio systemDirac
Built-in microphoneY
Camera
Front cameraY
Front camera HD typeHD
Privacy cameraY
Privacy typePrivacy shutter
Rear cameraY
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