Acer Reveals Chromebook 11 With 6th Gen Intel Processors

[kewlguy239]

We may already be seeing the emergence of Intel’s 8th generation Coffee Lake processors, but Acer just debuted a new Chromebook with 6th generation Skylake processors.

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[Jake Hall]

Wow... more power for an internet experience

 

[JRHERITA]

Please make 1366x768 and below laptops illegal..

 

[d_kuhn]

Lol... 1366x768, must be some displays left over from the early 2000's.

 

[artk2219]

Honestly using Skylake is fine because there isn't really much of a difference between it and Kaby Lake, and there isn't likely to be much of a difference between it and Coffee Lake and Canon Lake. Intel's hit such a plateau that you could even throw haswell based chips in there and barely notice a difference, if at all. Not that it would matter much on a machine that's basically just a glorified web terminal, and honestly it's a space that AMD's Bristol Ridge would have done exceptionally well in. If anyone would have ventured to use it in a chrome book, as opposed to cheap, crappy, huge, and stripped down commodity laptops with single channel memory, and 5400 RPM spinning disks.

 

[sykozis]

Please make 1366x768 and below laptops illegal..

What exactly would be the point of that? There's no reason for an entry-level laptop to have a 1080P or higher display. Especially in the Chromebook market. From what I've seen, ChromeOS doesn't benefit from higher resolutions at all. Even most of the entry-level Windows laptops don't need anything higher than 1366x768, especially running Intel chips. Intel's entry-level HD graphics found on most Celeron, Pentium and i3 processors already struggle with graphic intensive tasks at 1366x768.

 

[zippyzion]

They have to use their dust collecting hardware somewhere. To be honest, I don't know why we don't see more of this. Why wouldn't you take 2-3 generation old chips sitting on shelves and put them to use. There are plenty of applications where a Skylake or Broadwell i3 or i5 would be perfectly acceptable. Chromebooks, media centers, low end systems, and so on would all probably benefit from a bit more power, no matter if the CPU is 3 years old. It isn't like there have been great strides made since Sandy Bridge anyways. As long as the price and the performance are competitive, I don't have a problem at all with this.

 

[sykozis]

ChromeOS needs very little in the way of hardware to perform considerably better than Windows. I run CloudReady (ChromiumOS based, just like ChromeOS), on an old Core i3 380m. It's incredibly responsive. There is no perceivable lag whatsoever. ChromeOS isn't nearly as bloated as Windows which allows it to run fluidly on older, slower hardware. That's why most Chromebooks use Celeron processors....