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My hunch is that more people in countries like India use cpubenchmark / buy computers and try out cpubenchmark; and that in countries like those lower performin

My hunch is that more people in countries like India use cpubenchmark / buy computers and try out cpubenchmark; and that in countries like those lower performing laptops outsell more powerful laptops by an enough large number that it shows. It doesn’t have to be literally India, it’s an example for illustration.

baq 2y ago
Or the ‘slow CPUs’ are actually truly Fast Enough. Intel N100 and N150 systems are low key amazing value.
- bearjaws 2y ago
  I bought into the N100 hype train because of Reddit. Sure its an amazing value, but I hope anyone reading this isn't convinced it's remotely fast. I ended up going with a minisforum ryzen for about 2x the price and 4x the performance. I was a bit bummed since I wanted to use it as a kind of streaming box, and while it can do it, it is definitely slow.
  - baq 2y ago
    I got a 16GB RAM 512GB SSD N100 minipc for less than $150 last month. Yes it could be faster (always true for any computer), but I feel I got way more than I paid for. Certainly a much better deal than an RPi 5. PS. If you need more power than that I have a hard time coming up with a better deal than M4 Mac Mini, perhaps with some extra usb storage. It's possibly the only non-workstation computer that is worth buying in the not-inexpensive category (in the base version, obviously).
    - esperent 2y ago
      > it could be faster (always true for any computer) The question isn't whether it could be faster, but whether it's slow enough to be annoying for the tasks you use it for. I bet most people would find the N100 annoyingly slow when opening documents or browsing the web, or doing crazy things like opening a few programs at the same time.
      - baq 2y ago
        > I bet most people would find the N100 annoyingly slow when opening documents or browsing the web, or doing crazy things like opening a few programs at the same time. I'm actually not convinced. If you're used to a fast box, yes; I'd argue most people actually aren't.
        lostlogin 2y ago
        I’m annoyed opening a doc pretty much daily on a year old MacBook Pro. However the blame lies squarely with Microsoft. What the hell is their office suite up to?
dartharva 2y ago
Sounds possible, office laptops in India are generally shit-tier. But the largest non-bulk retail buyers of laptops in India seem to be (from my armchair market observation) school/college kids, and school/college kids increasingly prefer gaming laptops (India is the largest consumer of gaming laptops after the US) that will likely not give below-average benchmark results.

baq 2y ago

Or the ‘slow CPUs’ are actually truly Fast Enough. Intel N100 and N150 systems are low key amazing value.

bearjaws 2y ago
I bought into the N100 hype train because of Reddit. Sure its an amazing value, but I hope anyone reading this isn't convinced it's remotely fast. I ended up going with a minisforum ryzen for about 2x the price and 4x the performance. I was a bit bummed since I wanted to use it as a kind of streaming box, and while it can do it, it is definitely slow.
- baq 2y ago
  I got a 16GB RAM 512GB SSD N100 minipc for less than $150 last month. Yes it could be faster (always true for any computer), but I feel I got way more than I paid for. Certainly a much better deal than an RPi 5. PS. If you need more power than that I have a hard time coming up with a better deal than M4 Mac Mini, perhaps with some extra usb storage. It's possibly the only non-workstation computer that is worth buying in the not-inexpensive category (in the base version, obviously).
  - esperent 2y ago
    > it could be faster (always true for any computer) The question isn't whether it could be faster, but whether it's slow enough to be annoying for the tasks you use it for. I bet most people would find the N100 annoyingly slow when opening documents or browsing the web, or doing crazy things like opening a few programs at the same time.
    - baq 2y ago
      > I bet most people would find the N100 annoyingly slow when opening documents or browsing the web, or doing crazy things like opening a few programs at the same time. I'm actually not convinced. If you're used to a fast box, yes; I'd argue most people actually aren't.
      - lostlogin 2y ago
        I’m annoyed opening a doc pretty much daily on a year old MacBook Pro. However the blame lies squarely with Microsoft. What the hell is their office suite up to?

dartharva 2y ago

Sounds possible, office laptops in India are generally shit-tier. But the largest non-bulk retail buyers of laptops in India seem to be (from my armchair market observation) school/college kids, and school/college kids increasingly prefer gaming laptops (India is the largest consumer of gaming laptops after the US) that will likely not give below-average benchmark results.