• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’d definitely prefer to have gone the AMD route for these, but N200 isn’t that awful, no?

    I doubt it’s powerful enough to play back 4k videos smoothly and 1080p stretched to the native resolution doesn’t look super great. If AMD didn’t offer a vastly better alternative at similar cost, fine, but Ryzen Z1 and such are available.

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      10 months ago

      I have an N100 box running as my Plex server. It has no problem transcoding multiple 4k videos at once. This processor is no M2 but it isn’t really a slouch either.

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        10 months ago

        It has no problem transcoding multiple 4k videos at once.

        At 1 GHz? Sure about that? Even if my performance assumptions are off: something like the Steam Deck CPU surely still beats it, especially in low power.

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          10 months ago

          It can clock up to 3.7 GHz and has a decent GPU for an Intel one. All I can say for sure is that it keeps up just fine.

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            10 months ago

            It can clock up to 3.7 GHz and has a decent GPU for an Intel one. All I can say for sure is that it keeps up just fine.

            I see no cooling vents, so apparently passive cooling only and massive downclocking. Still think an AMD chip would have been better.