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

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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.