This is for hubby and 7 year old to surf and do homework. But isn't Pentium pretty old technology now? Will we notice?
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As long as you stay up on the routine maintenance, this will perform just about any task you challenge it with. Pentium is a division of intel processors, and intel is are the heavy hitters of their industry
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I am satisfied with machine operation for viewing web sites on the internet.Tim R.
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I think it works great. My 11 & 12 year old use it for homework and I use it to run a home embroidery machine. I have not noticed any problems at all with speed.
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I recently purchased one and I was skeptical at first with worries of the processor technology. however now I am very satisfied with it! its not designed for games, but it plays many games very well! As for speed, i've never seen it hiccup yet. load time from being off is about 20 seconds, all programs rum with ease.
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Thanks John, I am slow to catch on to some of these things, I am 77 Young, I had a Pin Ball Game on another PC, and was digging around trying to fine some thing that would work on my Lap Top, I think I will give it a try, thanks for Your in Put on my Question
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Who cares about XP try Win7 64 bit with 4 gig of RAM.... these core 2's fly with it...If someone is doing basic computing these computers will give them years of life.
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It's an amazing lap top for it's age. How ever Dell made the parts inside permanet you can not upgrade anything. It has one USB port which suprised me for the year built. It has the old style printer port. Now with windows XP expiring in April, I use FoxFire browser. I mainly use it for home part of my home security system.
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I7 is amazing and I'm not sure about specs for older but mine is really fast because it's 8 gigs of ram. I believe it's around 3.7ghz. I prefer newer up to date items as well because of bug fixes. I'm sure you could find a c
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We now have an older PC from you. It came with W7 on it, and it works wonderfully. We are very pleased with it.
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I would suggest you get a later version that would allow for more ram to be added. This machine is slow. Could be a headache for tasks that require heavy files or working with programs that require speed. I use this for documents and internet surfing.
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I'm doing the same thing. I am thinking along the same lines as you. My concern now is that her laptop is a bit antiquated...hope we don't end up buying another laptop to make it all work smoothly.
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I'm pretty sure this board isn't what you want. As I recall, the Pentium D CPU is only a DUAL-CORE device.
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I didn't know they still sold this model; its roughly 2ish years old. I think you may want to look for a laptop with dedicated graphics.
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The documentation file says that it requires a "Pentium Computer". So I doubt it.
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This is a first gen. processor. It is still plenty fast and you probably would not know the difference unless you are a heavy number cruncher or high resolution gamer
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I would say no. Since 11 year olds probably have higher expectations of what a computer is.
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Effectively this is an old laptop. As far as I know gamers want the latest, greatest, fastest, with huge memory and probably solid-state hard-disk. Video should be 'dedicated graphics' (should show as a separate high-end video card in the device manager). If you have a desktop with no video card and you use the ONBOARD VIDEO, that is 'integrated graphics'. Video Editing ok, but not gaming. I have a Z77 chipset, i5 chip, 32gb memory, onboard video, SSD (desktop, not my Gateway). I would add a high-end video card if I started gaming. Talk to a hard-core gamer, so you don't regret a purchase.
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No. What you are looking for may be a bit more expensive. The teen would probably be unhappy with the Intel HD graphics, as they only provide limited functionality for that type of use. I would instead go for a computer that is a BYOS (build your own system). This way, costs are kept down and performance is higher.
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If I had to hazard a guess it would be that the tablet does not have a quad core AMD like my laptop. Ours does not process at light speed but I expected that from a less expensive device. It still works fine but slower.
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Stuff like flash (youtube) is very processor (cpu) dependent; I recently put this in an old machine which had an old intel core 2 duo e4700 and it was fine. So compare that with your own setup. It did seem like it was stuttering if anything else was running. It might be worth it to put another 10 dollars into the video card, but if all your going to be doing is running youtube video it's fine. (Although seriously consider bumping up slightly.)