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minus-square@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish55•16 days agoSingle core? That must be more like 20 years old now.
minus-square@shalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish33•16 days agoI don’t believe this meme for a second. Wikipedia: The production of single-core desktop processors ended in 2013 with the Celeron G440, G460, G465 & G470. Those are so weak it’s not even funny.
minus-squarepewpewlinkfedilink12•edit-215 days agoIntel still makes Celerons that are probably just slightly faster than these
minus-squareCarrotsHaveEarslinkfedilink6•15 days agoThey could have made them even slower if the old architecture doesn’t cost so much more to manufacture.
minus-square@Treczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•14 days agoImagine that computing environments existed and thrived before gigabytes and gigahertz. I have done significant work on a machine with a single 8MHz core and 8Mbytes of RAM that I shared with several people.
minus-square@Tangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•12 days agoThose machines will explode if you open chrome
minus-square@Treczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•12 days agoNo. They would simply refuse to run it. They were rather smart machines back then.
minus-squareBarbecue CowboylinkfedilinkEnglish12•16 days agoIt’s not common, but you can find some in really cheap chromebooks going back only a few years and those are prime candidates for Linux.
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish14•15 days agoI’ve never seen one that wasn’t 4 cores ARM is cheap
minus-squareBarbecue CowboylinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-215 days agoThey have shitty ARM too, they pull out all the stops on chromebooks. Dual core ARM, new in 2021, its not alone: https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/chromebook/c203xa/ Intel also still has some celerons they make with dual cores right now.
minus-square@Kusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•15 days agoSince they’re Chromebooks aren’t they already running Linux, with ChromeOS being a very light Gentoo, sort of
Single core? That must be more like 20 years old now.
I don’t believe this meme for a second.
Wikipedia:
Those are so weak it’s not even funny.
Intel still makes Celerons that are probably just slightly faster than these
They could have made them even slower if the old architecture doesn’t cost so much more to manufacture.
Imagine that computing environments existed and thrived before gigabytes and gigahertz.
I have done significant work on a machine with a single 8MHz core and 8Mbytes of RAM that I shared with several people.
Those machines will explode if you open chrome
No. They would simply refuse to run it. They were rather smart machines back then.
It’s not common, but you can find some in really cheap chromebooks going back only a few years and those are prime candidates for Linux.
I’ve never seen one that wasn’t 4 cores
ARM is cheap
They have shitty ARM too, they pull out all the stops on chromebooks.
Dual core ARM, new in 2021, its not alone: https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/chromebook/c203xa/
Intel also still has some celerons they make with dual cores right now.
Good to know
I guess I know what to avoid
Since they’re Chromebooks aren’t they already running Linux, with ChromeOS being a very light Gentoo, sort of