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Hi,

I was looking for a laptop, could some one tell me the performance difference between the ones below in terms of performance?
Especially between the Pentium N quad cores & i5 2core/4threads.

Celeron N2840
Celeron N3050

Pentium N3540
Pentium N3825U

i3 4010u
i3 5010u

i5 4210u
i5 5200u

And how does AMD A6-6310 compare to them?

Thank you
 
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Celeron N2840 thru Pentium N3540 are Intel Atom CPUs. Low power but also low performance and meant for tablets and low end laptops.

Pentium 3825U (no "N") thru i5-5200u are mobile CPUs based on the Haswell (4xxx) or Broadwell (5xxx) generation Core CPUs. These are far more powerful than the Atom CPUs. The Pentium 3825U is basically a cut down version of a Broadwell generation Core i3 CPU with no hyper threading.

The Core i5 CPUs are the most powerful followed by the Core i3 CPUs.


The A6-6310's performance is basically between the Pentium 3825U and the Core i3-4010u. The AMD Radeon R4 (Beema) integrated graphics is about equal to the Intel HD (Broadwell) in the Pentium 3825u.
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Celeron N2840 thru Pentium N3540 are Intel Atom CPUs. Low power but also low performance and meant for tablets and low end laptops.

Pentium 3825U (no "N") thru i5-5200u are mobile CPUs based on the Haswell (4xxx) or Broadwell (5xxx) generation Core CPUs. These are far more powerful than the Atom CPUs. The Pentium 3825U is basically a cut down version of a Broadwell generation Core i3 CPU with no hyper threading.

The Core i5 CPUs are the most powerful followed by the Core i3 CPUs.


The A6-6310's performance is basically between the Pentium 3825U and the Core i3-4010u. The AMD Radeon R4 (Beema) integrated graphics is about equal to the Intel HD (Broadwell) in the Pentium 3825u.
 
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Right it's for my brother that's doing a Computing BSc.
So it'll be used for research, software development, word processing, light gaming, occasional photoshop/illustrator, general browsing and whatever kids do on computing courses.
He wanted it to have a 15.6" screen (or close) and wants it to be responsive.
He also wanted it to be new so he has warranty.
His budget is £300 which he might be able to stretch a bit.
He should also qualify for any student discounts that may be going on.
 
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When people say "responsive" for a laptop they generally want it to have a SSD. Because a SSD's read and write rates is much higher than a hard drive the laptop boots a lot faster and programs load faster as well. This is different from having a power CPU. Both of which are out of reach of a £300 laptop.

Just get a laptop with a Core i5-5200u CPU if it fits into the budget. It will also have the Intel HD 5500 graphics core which will be the most powerful iGPU of any of the listed CPUs. It is generally easy to upgrade with a SSD later on.
 
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For school work, always get something with an SSD, I've seen too many laptops infront of me with hard drives that wiped everything after someone even leaning on one, they are not suited for school work, at all. Sometimes you get lucky but I wouldn't risk it, the speed advantage and just have a backup HDD that use USB is a good idea. I've even had Macbook Pro's with hard drives, and even with their locking mechanism, it still happend.
 
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That was just an example. I didn't mean leaning as in putting a lot of pressure on it. You can tap a laptop in the wrong place and you'll have a chance of whiping it. 31 MacBook Pro 2012, 13 of them got whiped during the use of normal school children, over the course of 12 months. The MacBook Pro's also have the motion sensor to reduce the chance of this happening, but you can't say that a HDD is a good idea for a laptop, at all...

(put it in backpacks, move them around, up and down stairs, sometimes carrying it wrong, etc)

SSD's is just a safer bet.
 
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Thanks for your input everyone.
He's gone ahead and bought the HP laptop.

We've not had any issues with HDDs in laptops in the past, we're very protective of our equipment.
He will upgrade to an SSD in the future for a performance boost.
Laptops with an SSD already within them were either too expensive or had very little storage.
As a student living away from home he's kinda strapped, so it is what it is.
His work is constantly synced to the cloud and he keeps backups to minimise the risk of potential data loss.
 
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