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rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours agoIntel celeron N150?
I mean, yeah, technically it’s got more ram, but that’s literally the only thing going for it. I’ve got a mini-pc server with that exact CPU. It’s good enough for what I need it for, by my wife’s 5 generation old M1 Air from 2020 trounces it several times over in terms of speed, even with 8GB.
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
An N150 w/16GB RAM is gonna be way more useful than a A16 or whatever with 8GB. Most people will never touch the potential power of their processor but they certainly will be doing a bunch of shit simultaneously.
encelado748@feddit.org 15 hours ago
As an owner of both an n150 minipc with 16gb of ram and an m1 8g air I can assure you this statement is false. The first is a toy compared to the latter. You can use it as inexpensive home server, but not as a work machine.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
I also own both and disagree.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
Categorically: nope.
artyom@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Seriously: yep.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I mean, if that fits your use-case, I’m not gonna tell you not to get it. Plenty of folks just need a machine for scrolling a social media feed, documents, and Youtube.
But anyone who wants more than what amounts to a Chromebook can get it pretty affordably with the low-end macbooks. Effectively tripling your speed for another $200 is definitely worth it for lots of folks, and memory paging is a lot faster than it used to be.
Benchmarks can be hit or miss, but aren’t totally useless:
N150: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+N150
Low-end M1 from 2020: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+8+Core+…
And finally, the A19 they’re talking about using: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+A19+Pro
artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
These are CPU benchmarks, they don’t account for available RAM.