What should you be looking for in a laptop for writing? First of all, get a bluetooth keyboard. I recommend a few in this article. Don’t forget a portable mouse and mouse pad as well.
Presently speaking, technology of the intel atom processor and low gigs of ram are alright when it comes to a laptop that you won’t be using for anything other than writing. Note that you may have to switch a streaming laptop from Windows S mode if you need to use programs like Scrivener.
At the moment, I would be wary of stats of the hard drive only because some are so small you can’t even update Windows. Go for the 64 gig hd, over a 32, and make sure it has a microSD slot so you can expand its memory as well. I would not go under 4 gigs of ram if that is even an option these days.
Personally speaking, an 11.6” HP stream that I have works well. I was afraid the screen may be too small to edit scenes side by side in Scrivener 3, but it works fine.
Make your computer go a bit faster:
Disable Superfetch
Disable Windows Search
Do not install anything you do not need and certainly don’t have anything running that you don’t need. The resources may be acceptable these days, they are still low end.
Make sure you know what is starting up (from task manager) and disable anything not critical.
If you plan to use Scrivener, I would get a Windows based laptop, and not a Chromebook. If you need a free word processor, I would use LibreOffice. The cloud is fickle, and other people can more easily access your information.
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