Single core? That must be more like 20 years old now.
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I 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.
Intel still makes Celerons that are probably just slightly faster than these
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
Isn't that guy actually dead, tho?
...
Yeah too bad, he seemed nice
Black Panther never dies.
Literally did this last year with my laptop that would shut down constantly, often unable to even boot into Windows. Figured it was just stuffed cos it's a hundred years old.
Chucked Mint on, runs like a boss. Happy to say since then I have owned no Windows devices.
Debian 12 let me turn an ailing Gateway Centrino laptop into a media center + game station. It's technically dual core but it's 32-bit and really, really goddamn slow. Still, it's more than fast enough to run everything from the 4th console generation and before, and play a bunch of stuff I snagged with yt-dlp... as long as I made sure it was h264 and 480p or lower. Yeesh.
Still more than enough to make the break room at work amazing.
I wonder what happened to the 15(?) year old laptop at my mum and dads houseβ¦could anything be achieved with that?
Put in a SSD and you'll be surprised how far it can get you.
My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He's even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.
I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I'll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.
And also put in as much RAM as possible.
Not a bad chance. Worth looking into imo
Surely you could do something with it, but it probably has less power than a current raspberry pi.
You can use it to self host maybe
RIP :(
and what can you do with that single core? probably 1.2 GHz tops, no AVX and AES and others..
What DE?
I have an old DV7 dating back to the Bush administration that I should load Linux on.
It did really well from Vista through 7. I haven't used it in years, but it would probably do fine with Linux.