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The days of underpowered chromebooks is gone.
by alexnewman 4y ago
The days of underpowered chromebooks is gone.
- doubled112 4y agoThey're still pretty brutal. The BestBuy around the corner from me, for example, is selling an Asus Chromebook with a Celeron N3350/4GB RAM/64GB eMMC and 15.6" 720p screen for $400 CAD. Is this not underpowered? Sure there are other options, but to most people the appeal was the low cost. For $799, I'd just buy a PC.
- alexnewman 4y agomy 4 core top of the line intel 10th gen i7 with 16GB of ram i got for 750$ begs to differ
- bitwize 4y agoA number of models with 4 GiB RAM are still floating around out there; I consider that underpowered if you are going to be running a browser + heavyweight apps (Visual Studio Code is heavyweight). For Windows 1x, 4 GiB is barely usable; ChromeOS does better but today's memory-hungry apps can take that advantage away.
- alexnewman 4y agoI’ve seen such models for 200$ apples and oranges