N150 Twin Lake Processor

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I am considering picking up a mini PC that would be powered with an Intel N150 twin Lake processor with 16gb RAM.
This would run a Plex server as well as be my primary desktop machine.

Would this processor have enough power to be a decent desktop?

I currently use KDE as my DE, and will mostly use web but will run some apps… librecalc (not intensive) some audio/video conversions…

Asking as my research is resulting in a very mixed response.

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And why don’t you just try?

KDE / Plasma is about the most demanding as it gets - but the difference to Gnome or Xfce4 is not huge.

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I have an N100 with 16GB of RAM and Manjaro, and I have no problems with KDE. Office applications and web browsing work perfectly, but video conversion is clearly unsuitable for this type of processor.

(bmax)

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OK thanks for the reminder - I’ve struck my statement on models…

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Well I use the following Hardware with KDE and Wayland

Processors: 4 × Intel® Pentium® CPU  N3540  @ 2.16GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics
Manufacturer: Notebook
Product Name: W54_W94_W955TU,-T,-C

and regularly have multiple instances of Firefox running (currently 3), while watching Videos, and processing Videos with Handbreak.

Does that help?

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YES. nice workhorse for average use. it has enough power for a ordinary desktop-office-multimedia system and the wattage/power ratio is very good.multimedia has its limits, hd/uhd is okay but don’t expect a monster that can handle 4k. these n100/150/350/355 cpu’s are great and the 16GB RAM is perfect.

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Helps a LOT - THANKS!

(also - it reminded me that my current plex server is running on a J4125 celeron chip. The N150 should blow that away…

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well you can search for the types with the 350/355 cpu-types. the price for this systems isn’t very different to the 100/150 series. the compute-power is very similar (a little bit better) but the graphics of them is much better.

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To clarify - the 350/355 cpus will have similar processing power as the N150 with much better graphics? That would be great - I am just not familiar witiht he 350/355 chipsets - is there a ‘name’?

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@LuigiCalamar

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we must not link to brands that is against the forums-policy but i link you to the intel site of the specs to see the differences of both types:

n150:

n355:

the main difference is that the 355-graphics has 32-execution-units @ 1.35GHz while the n150 has only 24-execution-units @ 1GHz and the 355 is an 8-core while the n150 is a 4-core cpu

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