Thanks for your feedback!!  The price point is very good!!  If the 
performance is there then it would be a steal.



On 2014-07-18 10:09, Jim March wrote:
> If we check the CPU specs:
> 
> http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz
> [3]
> 
> ...we see that surpprisingly, it HAS the Intel "VTx" hardware
> virtualization
> extension.  That means getting a virtual machine running on it for at
> least basic stuff will work at reasonable speeds.
> 
> If we got to the CPUBench site we see it has a "performance score" of
> just under 1,000 which...is...bad-ish but not terrible like some of
> the Atom crap.
> 
> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html [4]
> 
> Upshot: you could do real work with that puppy, with a modern Linux
> distro and even light virtualization (running a copy of WinXP or
> another distro as a VM on it).
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:02 AM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
>> Better than a Chromebook?
>> 
>> 
> http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=fndoc3001b&model_id=inspiron-15-3531-laptop
>> [1]
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