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Old Feb 24, 2016 | 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by javabytes
Celeron... yuck...
I saw that one on slick deals and was going to post it before I double-checked the PassMark scores of that CPU. It would need to be in the $150 range for me to recommend that to anyone, and then it'd probably be very specifically to someone that refused an equivalently speced thinner and lighter tablet/hybrid. That said, the talk in the SlickDeals thread seems to praise it with very little, if any, complaints about the CPU. Most of the focus seems to be on the durability/ruggedness and it seems to be mostly people who don't want a tablet/hybrid for whatever reason.

I used to be of the rugged business laptop mindset, but 2 years of working on super thin/light consumer machines has shifted my opinion and I'll probably never again carry anything over 3lb, and nothing over 1.5-2lb for a screen 11.6" or less. I can understand why someone managing an IT department wouldn't roll-out this kind of device, but if it's my choice and my dime if it tumbles to the sidewalk, I'll take thin/light and pretend to have some faith in my own manual dexterity.

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