Is this laptop good enough for light workloads?

Vishvas Sudarshan · December 19, 2018

This will used for browsing, Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint... and that's basically it.

I might replace the HDD with an SSD for quick responsiveness

https://www.hpshopping.in/laptops-tablets/hp-notebook-15-da0295tu-4tt00pa.html

Specs:

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

4 GB DDR4-2400

Thanks!

Princess Luna · December 19, 2018

Not really, too much of a low end CPU and 4gb of ram really isn't enough if you plan on working with it.

I guess if you have loads of patience and this isn't for professional work then it's alrightish but I'd try seeing the cheapest i5 8250U laptop you can find even if it has 4gb of ram that'd give you the room to put the SSD and another 4gb of ram.

But like I said it depends on what will be your actual usage.

Vishvas Sudarshan · December 19, 2018

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Not really, too much of a low end CPU and 4gb of ram really isn't enough if you plan on working with it.

I guess if you have loads of patience and this isn't for professional work then it's alrightish but I'd try seeing the cheapest i5 8250U laptop you can find even if it has 4gb of ram that'd give you the room to put the SSD and another 4gb of ram.

But like I said it depends on what will be your actual usage.

Right now, we have a bunch of 5-6th gen i3 4GB laptops and it seems to be working pretty well. Considering that, does this Pentium hold good?

Princess Luna · December 19, 2018

1 minute ago, Vishvas Sudarshan said:

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I use an i7 7500U which is another 2c/4t like most and yes it's perfectly enough for the tasks, just not the most ideal... A Pentium however is too much of a step down.

The laptop I bought also originally had just 4gb of memory, for private usage it was doable but for work with multiple instances of Microsoft Office application open along side web browsing and photo editing programs it wasn't enough... was forced to up it to 8gb of memory.