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If you want "big screen, small CPU" you might as well buy used/refurbished. Unless you care a lot about that battery life, I guess. Oh, and I don't think mains
by zozbot123 8y ago
If you want "big screen, small CPU" you might as well buy used/refurbished. Unless you care a lot about that battery life, I guess. Oh, and I don't think mainstream OS's are going to work so well on a weak CPU, though a well-maintained Linux distro (read: not *buntu, not Mint) is a different matter.
- baybal2 8y agoA clean windows install without "crapware" is more than enough to watch movies and web browse at 4GB ram for regular people. People who buy "big screen, small CPU" are not your usual refurbished hardware buyers, I think they really are "socially antipodal" to them. Some bling and, "freshness" is definitely a deciding factor for them, unlike to people who buy "refurbished ABS plastic slabs" office class hardware. Asus has a 15 incher that they sold close to $600 just half a year ago that was Atom powered. It was a very basic machine, with a surprising pricetag. No wonder, every OEM is already on the trend.
- zozbot123 8y ago> is more than enough to watch movies and web browse at 4GB ram for regular people. And that's exactly the issue. Watch movies and web browse, oh come on... put a high-quality distro on it and 4GB is plenty enough for a snappy, solid, general purpose machine. Put another 4GB in it and you've basically hit workstation class, while Windows 10 needs as much just to be barely usable! Like, this makes no sense to me actually. It's so far out of a sensible perspective.
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoNot sure quality of the distribution has much to do with it. Look at Electron apps. A chat app takes more resources than my entire computer used to have and doesn’t do significantly more.