What is the best laptop procesor for only web browsing and for non gaming purposes?

[Ricardo_40]

I am buying a laptop for a cousin and want to know what procesor is the lowest that will be able to do the job but i dont want one that is too cheap.
Whatever laptop i get i am getting the hard drive out of it adding it as extra memory for my desktop pc and buying my cousing a ssd for the laptop.

 

[th3p00r]

screen size and budget?
I misunderstood the question, LOL.

 

[HardwareExtreme]

I would recommend getting something like a Core i3, or an AMD A4/A6. These you will be able to get for fairly cheap.

 

[Ecky]

You want something based on Intel's larger "Core" CPU cores, rather than the smaller "Atom" CPU cores. For instance:

Celeron N3150 - 4x Atom cores
Pentium N4200 - 4x Atom cores
Pentium 4415u - 2x Kaby Lake "Core" cores
Core i3 7100u - 2x Kaby Lake "Core" cores

So, Pentiums are the crossover point. Anything with a "U" on the end should be fast, whereas anything that starts with an "N" will be painfully slow. A Pentium "xxxxU" or Core i3 (or i5/i7) would be good choices.

 

[Ricardo_40]

You want something based on Intel's larger "Core" CPU cores, rather than the smaller "Atom" CPU cores. For instance:

Celeron N3150 - 4x Atom cores
Pentium N4200 - 4x Atom cores
Pentium 4415u - 2x Kaby Lake "Core" cores
Core i3 7100u - 2x Kaby Lake "Core" cores

So, Pentiums are the crossover point. Anything with a "U" on the end should be fast, whereas anything that starts with an "N" will be painfully slow. A Pentium "xxxxU" or Core i3 (or i5/i7) would be good choices.

I am thinking of buying this laptop: https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-E403SA-US21-lightweight-Hairline-brushed/dp/B01B9APNG0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=austevan-20&linkId=3e707d5caa6045406abd971ddeb1e09b
It has a Pentium N3700 which you said was slow but i saw an austin evans video saying that it was able to do simple tasks fairly good, you think it is?

PS: This laptop will never be used for gaming, heavy video editing, it is for a college student

 

[Ecky]

My personal opinion, even the top end "N" CPUs are painful to use for even basic desktop tasks like web browsing, even when paired with a fast solid state drive and a generous amount of RAM. You're looking at ~year 2005 per-core performance.