Bay trail - very impressive

stampedeadam

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I recently bought a very cheap Dell laptop with a dual-core "bay trail" processor - branded Celeron, with integrated graphics. After putting an SSD in it I am extremely impressed.

It's no powerhouse but it runs Windows 8.1 very well indeed and I can still play older games with respectable settings - Max Payne 1 and 2 and Half-life are installed and play beautifully. The most impressive part though has to be the fact that it runs so cool it doesn't have a fan in it. Along with the SSD this means it's totally silent and the battery can last about two full days of use.

Some people will need a desktop replacement and this won't be for them - but for those who don't need serious number crunching on the move, this is the future IMO. :cool:
 
I recently bought a very cheap Dell laptop with a dual-core "bay trail" processor - branded Celeron, with integrated graphics. After putting an SSD in it I am extremely impressed.

It's no powerhouse but it runs Windows 8.1 very well indeed and I can still play older games with respectable settings - Max Payne 1 and 2 and Half-life are installed and play beautifully. The most impressive part though has to be the fact that it runs so cool it doesn't have a fan in it. Along with the SSD this means it's totally silent and the battery can last about two full days of use.

Some people will need a desktop replacement and this won't be for them - but for those who don't need serious number crunching on the move, this is the future IMO. :cool:

I thought the future of laptops was chromebooks... Dell, huh? I think you may be too easily impressed. Have you looked at lenovo? or for serious power to go Asus ROG laptops?
 
I thought the future of laptops was chromebooks... Dell, huh? I think you may be too easily impressed. Have you looked at lenovo? or for serious power to go Asus ROG laptops?

He doesn't need it. Did you even read the post? He says its good for people who just need something on the go with great battery life.

Intel have a quad core Bay Trail. Think its N2320? Something like that. Would be much better than a dual core for sure.
 
Eh. Still prefer buying an older refurb over a celeron. For the same price as a celeron based laptop you can get a refurb business spec lenovo with a first gen i5, 7 64 bit and other goodness. Less battery, more grunt/better build quality.
 
I think they need to junk the Celeron brand. The older ones were horrible. This one is excellent, very thin and light, battery goes on for days and is quick unless you want heavyweight productivity. I just love the fact that it has no fan and seems to make no heat at all. It can actually go on my lap comfortably without me having to worry about blocking any fan-holes (or it warming up my testicles lol)

Chromebooks are great but won't run the software I need them to. This runs XP in Oracle VirtualBox really well although I may upgrade to 8GB memory so I can allocate more to the VM.

I don't know about the comparison to the first-gen i5 but this is definitely as quick, or quicker, than my 2.4ghz Core2Duo (and that's with the same amount of memory and the same hard disc). That was running XP natively and this is running within a VM.

Like I said - if you really want a mobile gaming platorm you will need something more grunty. I am surprised that any games work at all given that this thing uses pretty much no power - it's not what I bought it for - but it's shocking how something that needed a desktop with a discrete graphics card to pay 7/8 years ago will now run better on this entry level laptop.
 
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