HP Chromebox to Have Intel Celeron and Core i7 Options

[exfileme]

There will be two models: one with an Intel Celeron and one with an Intel i7.

HP Chromebox to Have Intel Celeron and Core i7 Options : Read more

 

[mobrocket]

why would you need an I7 for this?

 

[vmem]

^ that's my question too... I thought a celeron and an i3 would be appropriate. an i5 at most...

also, 8GB of memory? a bit excessive too

 

[derekullo]

why would you need an I7 for this?

Downloading 20 torrents at the same time takes alot of cpu power.

 

[Mac266]

Im thinking a Xeon would be better in this.

 

[Halfey Halphstein]

I use my Chromebook for watching movies too and found that the Haswell Celeron may or may not have enough power to process the fast pacing movements in HD movies. I would welcome an i5 for that. Another thing is 4GB of RAM is barely enough for my browsing habit. I often found many tabs being unloaded (due to insufficient memory) almost as soon after I leave them to visit other tabs, even if only for a while. Having bigger RAM could be helpful here.

 

[nazgron]

Wow i7 chromebox, Ima just haveta install an external GTX780 to play minecraft now?!

 

[Lollard101]

The i7-4600u isn't a real i7.. it has two cores and four threads, it's basically an i3. Marketing..

 

[Hanin33]

i have an "ultrabook" with the i7-4600U and as Lollard101 explained, it's just an i3/i5 with Hyperthreading. The clock speed is very low as well (2.1Ghz). sure, it does turbo clocking, but that only rarely works out like marketing would have you believe.