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They don't come with reasonable displays. My previous experience with low-end intel hardware has been universally negative, so I assumed the i3's are terrible.
by hedora 3y ago
They don't come with reasonable displays.
My previous experience with low-end intel hardware has been universally negative, so I assumed the i3's are terrible. Passmark says they are far better than I would have guessed:
M1 performance at 4x the wattage.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-12100 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-12100
So, either these get hot and are power-outlet-dependent, or they throttle badly.
I wonder if suspend / resume works reliably. It did not for the last 4 intel laptops I owned, regardless of OS. That included Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Maybe the AMD ones are decent. It's a shame about the screen (and bizarre bios) though.
- _ea1k 3y agoMy guess is that they throttle a bit. ChromeOS machines tend to sleep and resume really well and sacrifice performance for battery. In a world full of low end garbage windows machines, it actually makes them a pretty nice little niche. Lots of consumers would likely find them much better than a lot of the $1-200 more expensive Windows laptops.
- kcb 3y agoThat's a desktop processor. These will all likely contain u series processors.
- danans 3y ago> They don't come with reasonable displays How do you define "reasonable"? My Asus Chromebook has this display, which I find very reasonable for work: - 14” LED-backlit Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 display - Four-way NanoEdge display with 85% screen-to-body ratio - 4.9mm-thin side bezel and 7mm bottom bezel - Wide 100% sRGB color gamut - 178° wide-view technology
- tgma 3y agoYours is not the average Chromebook. It probably cost you at least $450 is my guess.
- matheusmoreira 3y ago> either these get hot and are power-outlet-dependent, or they throttle badly Probably all three at the same time.