Is a Intel Core i5-4210U 1.7GHz any good?

[DragonLS]

I was asked by my family to find a pretty decent laptop on a low enough budget. I would assume it would be for business, since we've got enough computers in this house already.

However, I was asked to find one that was fairly strong, which is when I found this little number.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314535

It has a really decent graphics GPU for its price. The DVD Drive can be an acceptable loss as long as it has good power to it. However, the Intel i5 that's implemented worries me a bit. Granted it can turbo up to 2.7 gHz, but it being a Dual Core concerns me a bit, since I've always used Quad Cores (Mostly for the speed)

For the sake of her job and business (and maybe light gaming), do you think I'd be safe with this GPU and CPU? It's not going to be prone to a lot of slowdowns when multitasking, is it?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... Here is a general performance chart... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-4210U+%40+1.70GHz It Does have HT enabled on it, so Windows will Multi-task better with it... and also 8gb ram is nice. The CPU can use 16gb of Ram but Don't know if the MB will be able to, since there are only two ram slots. http://ark.intel.com/products/81016/Intel-Core-i5-4210U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_70-GHz
The CPU has graphics too and you might be able to run Dual monitors in a Office type program and internet streaming.

 

[rockie_]

i would give it a try ! i noticed this laptop a long time ago . The specs are great for the price. All games are playable on it at 1366x768 .

 

[qubits]

i think it has decent power for the screen res but what i see is a 5400 rpm hdd with no ssd so that could easily become the bottleneck

yeah its basically a desktop i3 with a lower clock to keep the temps and power draw down

 

[KoopaCreeper]

In short: it's not a bad CPU. As long as it isn't used to render videos and whatnot, it should be fast enough for moderate-heavy office work and business. The dGPU isn't neccesary for those tasks as well; the integrated graphics are pretty decent even for light gaming (although don't expect high settings on much). The main slowdown I would anticipate is the slow HDD: maybe switch it out for a SSD, but I recommend that for pretty much all computers.

 

[KoopaCreeper]

Also, if your family can wait, Intel has released their low-voltage mobile Broadwell CPUs, so you could wait for OEMs to start shipping those.