Reddit reviews Acer Aspire E3-111-P8DW 11.6-Inch Laptop (Cool Silver)

Spotify, skype, chrome, word, powerpoint. I bought it on amazon. I had used my brothers macbook pro the week before I bought it and realized I needed a laptop for school and travel. I loved the trackpad on the macbook, but if I had $1000 to spend on a laptop then I'd rather get a gaming laptop so I could go hang out with friends and do LAN parties. Then that'd be a heavy 15 inch. The Acer I got is super light and portable. I take notes in class, listen to music and browse reddit before class. I don't use it at home, because I have my shrine. Just closing the lid when I'm done and the battery lasts a week. Charge sunday night and its at 20% when I get home Friday afternoon.

The computers you listed aren't bad, although they use pretty weak celerons. All three use the same CPU, the n2815, which is significantly slower than the celeron n2930 and the majority of pentiums.

A few more suggestions:

• Acer e3, nice tablet with dock, with pentium processor. Here's a good review
  
  
• asus x200ca pretty much the same as the ones you linked above, but this one runs a much faster pentium processor.
  
  For the most part I use cpubenchmark to compare different CPUs. Benchmarks aren't a holistic assessment of processing power or indicative of overall performance, but it's a decent starting place for comparing CPUs. notebookcheck is a little more holistic, but they have fewer comparisons.
  
  BTW: I second the suggestions to get a chromebook, they have great everything except windows. At the price range we're talking about here, windows will pretty much run poorly on anything. ChromeOS or a linux distro will be a lot faster (I'm talking significant jumps). Plus linux already has pretty much any program you can think of except for games, which you wouldn't be able to play anyways at this price range.