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pentium all in one?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:41 pm
by murphy_p_t
my laptop seems dead.
is a pentium good all in one for stuff like youtube and multitasking?
from
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... leOptOut=1
claims it can do all this...i.m just skeptical since pentium has been aroun so long
better suggestion out there...bang for the buck?
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:16 pm
by Pointedstick
That thing comes with Windows 8, which to me is a deal-breaker. Not that I'm biased or anything,
but I recommend a MacBook Air. IMHO it's the best computer ever designed for nearly all typical uses.
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:37 pm
by whatchamacallit
That looks like a very reasonable deal to me for an all in one.
Here is a comparable all in one at Walmart for more money that has good reviews.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Pavilion-2 ... 1/34083882
Windows 8.1 is fine once you get used to it. They are basically giving Windows 8.1 away for free on this computer.
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:30 am
by MachineGhost
murphy_p_t wrote:
better suggestion out there...bang for the buck?
The Pentium moniker isn't the same core of old; it's just a rebranded Core i3 with many features disabled for the low end market. I really don't know why Intel feels the need to rebrand Core chips as Pentium's and Celeron's except to make money at it. The Core i3 is already very low end and slow. I guess if you still single task and don't run a lot of systray apps, then a Pentium/Celeron could be okay. But your britches may be tight on higher expectations.
However, if you're gonna upgrade to something, then for gawd's sake, make sure you get a solid state drive (SSD) as a primary drive not a regular hard disk drive (HDD). That will be the biggest user improvement over anything else of the last couple of decades.
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:59 am
by dualstow
+1 on SSD. They're not exactly cheap, but way more affordable than they used to be and you'll get your money's worth, Murphy.
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:40 pm
by Mountaineer
Another + for the SSD. And a Macbook of some type.
... Mountaineer
Re: pentium all in one?
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:09 pm
by Libertarian666
SSDs are REALLY cheap, in my opinion. I bought three 256GB SSDs via Amazon for a little over $100 each. I migrated the OS to the SSDs (two laptops and one tower), which was pretty easy, and the boot and launch performance is far better than it was.