• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I wish they’d start competing on power efficiency and performance per watt. Intel wouldn’t have had this issue if they’d make a CPU that runs at reasonable power consumption, and laptops suffer because of it.

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      3 months ago

      They have such chips, like N100 or i3-305, but that won’t cut it for more demanding users.

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        3 months ago

        I’ve been trying to find a cheap N100 laptop to test, but I’ve tried some of their previous “economy core” powered machines and they neither get performance nor battery life. Race to idle is legitimately a good thing, but those machines are just too under powered to ever get to idle so they never get good battery life.

        Under a load they get good battery life, but trying to use the computer as a computer they suck. One of these machines takes like 30 minutes for windows update to do a basic update. And the entire time the machine is unusably slow because of it. I installed linux on there and not having windows update ruining things made it tolerable, but still pretty bad for what on paper should have been enough.

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          3 months ago

          I ordered mini pc equipped with N100 couple days back with intention to build home “NAS” with it and couple more services running. I think it’s perfect for this, but don’t have it in my hands yet.