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Old 1st June 2024 | 12:15
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Saab Dastard
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Originally Posted by Uplinker
@Saab; why not a Celeron CPU ? Is it slow or not secure ?
It's not insecure, just crippled. Celeron has fewer cores (usually just 2), lower clock speeds and less cache memory than it's non-crippled brethren, and often lacks support for multi-threading, turbo boost and other performance increasing technologies. This degrades multi-tasking performance, not just limits single-task capability. So it's slow, but if that isn't important - and it appears not to be - then it may well be more than adequate for your needs.

The problem may well be that a Windows OS will weigh it down so much that it will be sluggish even for the basic tasks you want it to perform - as Jhieminga suggested, you might get better performance from a lighter Linux OS.
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