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Question

is intel i3 good for me?

by Jul 3, 2016 3:30PM PDT

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I'm going to share what OLDER laptops I have.
by Forum moderator Jul 3, 2016 4:02PM PDT

You have an i3 there and I have a couple ancient laptops that one is great on youtube and more and the older one works but not full screen on videos.

You have picked a far better model than my old 2009 Sony Vaio with Core2Duo and it's 4GB RAM. This one is good enough to put 1080p up on the HDTV.

And it's far better than my son's returned to me Dell Inspiron e1505 (2006 model) CoreDuo, 2GB model. It has a cheap 120GB SSD or it would be gone. It does the audio things well but full screen it just can't handle it.

You're fine.

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no gaming or heavy workloads
by Jul 8, 2016 5:22AM PDT

if it's really no gaming or heavy workloads, i3 should be ok.

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i3 is good enough
by Jul 15, 2016 4:39PM PDT

i3 is good enough, and you can add more Ram for boosting the processing speed.

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