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The 1115G4 is the 2 core / 4 thread model that is functional, but more comparable to the Pentium and Celeron CPUs you see in Chromebooks. These lower horsepower CPUs are killer with Chrome OS, but demanding of more patience when operated with Windows. At this price point you might do better to shop for a refurb/off-lease laptop with a 4 core i-series CPU. In fact, I see that a refurb HP 15-dy2035tg 15.6" is available at Micro Center with that exact 1125G4 i3 I mentioned earlier.
Good luck!
Jon
The 1115G4 is the 2 core / 4 thread model that is functional, but more comparable to the Pentium and Celeron CPUs you see in Chromebooks. These lower horsepower CPUs are killer with Chrome OS, but demanding of more patience when operated with Windows. At this price point you might do better to shop for a refurb/off-lease laptop with a 4 core i-series CPU. In fact, I see that a refurb HP 15-dy2035tg 15.6" is available at Micro Center with that exact 1125G4 i3 I mentioned earlier.
Good luck!
Jon
That's not to say AMD doesn't offer good choices also. I much prefer iGPU for general PC laptops.
Lazy Intel got bit by AMD and Apple's M1 and finally started pumping out cores they were artificially holding for more expensive models. I predict 4 cores, while may be ok for now, is not future proof.
The 1115G4 is the 2 core / 4 thread model that is functional, but more comparable to the Pentium and Celeron CPUs you see in Chromebooks. These lower horsepower CPUs are killer with Chrome OS, but demanding of more patience when operated with Windows. At this price point you might do better to shop for a refurb/off-lease laptop with a 4 core i-series CPU. In fact, I see that a refurb HP 15-dy2035tg 15.6" is available at Micro Center with that exact 1125G4 i3 I mentioned earlier.
Good luck!
Jon
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The 1115G4 is the 2 core / 4 thread model that is functional, but more comparable to the Pentium and Celeron CPUs you see in Chromebooks. These lower horsepower CPUs are killer with Chrome OS, but demanding of more patience when operated with Windows. At this price point you might do better to shop for a refurb/off-lease laptop with a 4 core i-series CPU. In fact, I see that a refurb HP 15-dy2035tg 15.6" is available at Micro Center with that exact 1125G4 i3 I mentioned earlier.
Good luck!
Jon
That's not to say AMD doesn't offer good choices also. I much prefer iGPU for general PC laptops.
However, as much as Intel and Microsoft work together they also remain distinct with unique targets. Intel produces CPU to meet a performance target which allows them to fill a product position. There's no guarantee that such a CPU operates Windows well, even if the underlying x86 architecture means Windows will technically run on it.
Despite relatively beefy "large" i-series cores, the newest low power dual-core i3 CPUs live in the overall performance realm of the smaller, but individually less-capable quad-core, Atom-based CPUs (particularly for multi-threaded, multi-core workflows). This is not great for Windows because even a browser with a few threads open begins to occupy multiple threads on a CPUs.
So though the newest dual core i3 CPUs are indeed an improvement over even the newest Atom CPUs by a good margin (with Passmark scores typically 50-100% higher) the quad core i3 CPUs in the current generation represent another significant jump in performance over the dual-core i3 CPUs (with Passmark scores typically over 50% higher again). What has to be considered is the minimum acceptable performance for a given user as their daily driver PC, especially since benchmarks aren't great indicators of this. Considering that the latest i3 beats a bunch of older i5 CPUs (8th and 9th generation) it should be clear that this CPU is probably a great choice for a wide range of uses). By contrast, CPUs like the Atom N5000 run in the range of early Intel Core CPUs (though MUCH more efficiently). Though Windows would be functional on such a PC it would be far from fun. Clearly the i3 1115G4 falling in between these two extremes means you have to make some subjective arguments about what would be an acceptable experience. My suggestion is more that the 1125G4 is broadly a good experience for a wide enough swath of users to be more universally acceptable.
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Jon
Good luck!
Jon
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I know someone who basically got a free laptop because the seller refused to communicate over some condition issues that were not transparent. The seller stopped responding after 7-10 days of bad communication and submitted to eBay to step in and within 48 hours eBay refunded the money and said the case was closed and there was no need to return the laptop.
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