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Author: Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
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CC: Ryan Petris
Subject: Re: Cheap Laptop
Looking at the actual machine, note that it only has 4GB of RAM, which is likely not upgradeable, and 128GB of UFS storage (not NVME), and thus is likely not upgradable either. So, that's all it's going to have ever, and the disk is going to be a bottleneck, at least for writes.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 9:18 AM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> It's basically a CPU with just the Efficiency cores of a U or P series processor I believe. They're pretty good from what I've seen, much better than the older celeron J and N series processors.
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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>> https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-6-Laptop-Intel-Processor-N200-Pentium-4GB-RAM-128GB-UFS-Natural-Silver-Windows-11-Home-in-S-Mode-15-fd0081wm/2950076964?athbdg=L1800
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>> The N200 CPU has a decent benchmark with 4 cores and 4 treads...
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>> Seems like it would make a nice Linux machine.
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>> Keith
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