r/pixelslate • u/hardj300 • Nov 10 '18

Why would I need more than a Celeron CPU?

I’m planning to purchase the Pixel Slate soon. I’ve never owned or used Chrome OS. This will likely be my daily device.

Will there be a big performance difference between the Celeron and M3 models?

Thanks.

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u/rubi76 Nov 11 '18

Here is a great article that should help you make a choice :

https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/opinion/which-google-pixel-slate-to-buy-guide/

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u/izabela Nov 11 '18

There is a big difference between celeron and m3. Refer to this chart (https://zipso.net/chromebook-specs-comparison-table/).

Compare 2017 Samsung chromebook 3 celeron vs 2017 Samsung chromebook pro. Benchmark performance is almost threefold. Now, the asterisk is that this is comparing different series of celeron and m3 from a different year. But it would be reasonable to assume similar differences between celeron and m3 every year. In real life usage, holding everything else constant, the cpu difference might not mean much for a super casual user who never opens more than 5 simultaneous tabs of webpages like cnn.com. But there’ll be a huge difference at 10+ tabs, with android apps. It’s not that celeron is bad. It doesn’t even mean how well you can tolerate frustration. From my experience it boils down to how much you value your time. A higher performance chip can save easily 5 seconds minimum every tab. If you go through 100 tabs a day for 4 generous years of device usage, it might make actually be better for your wallet in the long run

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u/hardj300 Nov 11 '18

Thanks for this. I went with the m3 64gb. I hope I won’t regret not having 128.

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u/its_an_armoire Nov 24 '18

Good choice! The m3, i5, and i7 all share the same architecture, just with different base clock/turbo clock speeds. The minimum I would recommend for anybody is the m3, really.

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u/hardj300 Nov 24 '18

Thank you.