Microsoft's Cheap Surface to Feature Pentium Chips (Report)

[henrytcasey]

Low-price Surface tablets form Microsoft may go for a Pentium processor to offset the price.

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[zodiacfml]

Intel Atom.

 

[Ilya__]

Pentium is much, much better than Atom

 

[Gillerer]

I see you've fallen into the trap Intel laid for you.

* Celeron/Pentium Silver are essentially rebranded Atoms.

* Celeron/Pentium Gold are the "proper" Core-based CPUs.

 

[adamboy64]

A nice call back to Weird Al there. I like that
That album was nearly 20 years ago...

This could be my first laptop, it seems pretty appealing so far, particularly if the cost is kept down. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

[bit_user]

This could be my first laptop, it seems pretty appealing so far, particularly if the cost is kept down. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

There are better deals to be found in referb, "open box new", and liquidation sales of last year's models.

Just over a year ago, I got a Skylake i3 ultrabook for about $430. Sure, it's bigger and heavier, but it's got a 13" 1080p screen and a full-sized proper keyboard. Its CPU will run circles around any of these, and it still gets a 11 hour battery life. And the RAM & storage are upgradable.

 

[randomstar]

For most practical purposes , the Atom/Pentium family is good enough for Email and web apps, streaming video, content consumption. you really can not tell the difference. Power users and creators will not be satisfied with it, but that is not the target audience.
What they do need to compete with, however is the $349 Lenovo or Asus mini notebook at office depot- so they need to work out how to make it compete with the keyboard and at 128 GB minimum SSD, 6GB Ram, for around $400.00.
then it makes sense..

 

[davo6233]

N5000 is even better than Core M3 7Y30, because its Quad-Core (look at Geekbench)
I dont know which every website is saying "upgraded version running on Pentium Gold 4410Y and 4415Y chips"
Its TOTAL FAKE, because 4410Y&4415Y are much slower than N5000

 

[maplestory5376]

N5000 is indeed much better than both the 4410Y&4415Y (1.5ghz 2 core 4 thread, and 1.6ghz 2 core 4 thread) Versus, the N5000 at 1.1GHZ-2ghz+ turbo, at 4 cores and 4 threads lol

 

[davo6233]

I see you've fallen into the trap Intel laid for you.

* Celeron/Pentium Silver are essentially rebranded Atoms.

* Celeron/Pentium Gold are the "proper" Core-based CPUs.

Your message is total lie. Cuz N5000 silver is much more powerful than gold 4415y, n5000 is even faster than latest core m3

 

[Ilya__]

This could be my first laptop, it seems pretty appealing so far, particularly if the cost is kept down. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

There are better deals to be found in referb, "open box new", and liquidation sales of last year's models.

Just over a year ago, I got a Skylake i3 ultrabook for about $430. Sure, it's bigger and heavier, but it's got a 13" 1080p screen and a full-sized proper keyboard. Its CPU will run circles around any of these, and it still gets a 11 hour battery life. And the RAM & storage are upgradable.

You are missing the point. This is not for people who want a bigger screen and full keyboard. This is a small machine (like an iPad) to use for netflix, email checking, reading books, news, shopping... Something people can throw in a purse and use on a plane or car. And given those usages, this does it better than your i3 Skylake with a 13" and only 1080p

 

[bit_user]

This could be my first laptop, it seems pretty appealing so far, particularly if the cost is kept down. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

There are better deals to be found in referb, "open box new", and liquidation sales of last year's models.

Just over a year ago, I got a Skylake i3 ultrabook for about $430. Sure, it's bigger and heavier, but it's got a 13" 1080p screen and a full-sized proper keyboard. Its CPU will run circles around any of these, and it still gets a 11 hour battery life. And the RAM & storage are upgradable.

You are missing the point. This is not for people who want a bigger screen and full keyboard. This is a small machine (like an iPad) to use for netflix, email checking, reading books, news, shopping... Something people can throw in a purse and use on a plane or car. And given those usages, this does it better than your i3 Skylake with a 13" and only 1080p

I wasn't giving general advice, but rather speaking specifically to @adamboy64, who seems to be looking specifically for a cheap laptop. If you really want a device to use primarily as a laptop, then a proper laptop is probably the better option.

And you seemed to knock a 1080p screen, but it's really all you need for a 13" screen that you would hold at normal laptop distance. Some of the cheapest laptops don't even have 1080p. And if you go for a 4k screen, then the little iGPU won't be able to drive it as competently. Therefore, I feel 1080p is pretty much ideal.