I'll be mostly just watching instructional videos, mp3s, and writing. Is the Celeron Processor fast enough for those tasks ?
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I would say yes. It's not blazing. However I use it for school and as an entertainment source. I watch netflix and amazon prime videos on it, as well as videos for school. No problems. MP3's and word processing programs are no problem. I have the bulk of my music on an external HD. The HD in this computer is not massive, so I would recommend storing your music elsewhere depending on the amount and amount of software you intend on having on the PC. Hope that helps.
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For the price you will get solid performance. All the specs are listed on the amazon page. The only problem I ran is with 64bit operating systems
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Either one would be fine for browsing and word documents. So far my i5 has hardly been stressed at all even with some light gaming and HD streaming. The 6gb is nice, everything opens quickly and the UI is smooth.
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if you're not planning on using adobe premiere (or other video editing software) with high memory usage then you dont really need to worry about memory speed... but if you're into video editing then get 2400....
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Here you go... At least 1.4 Ghz of processor speed, 1GB of free hard drive space, 2GB RAM, Windows vista, 7 or XP and 512MB of video memory. YES
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It's an ideal machine. Since you're working with video, you might want to make sure the ram is maxed out if it's not already. 8 gigs is max.
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Depending on the video editing that you are trying to do, this may not be the best solution. While the video on this Macbook is definitely sufficient for most normal needs and would be fine for light video editing but not heavy professional editing. That being said, the hard drive can be updated, and the RAM memory can be upgraded to 16GB, but the processor speed can not. I hope this is helpful information.
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Not really. If you are browsing the web and word processing I would go with 2.0 GHZ. I would use the extra money to buy the extended applecare or add more memory.
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make the ram 8GB and you will be flying! otherwise works pretty good with photoshop but i think that it will work as good with engineering design like autodesk, solid works and etc. You can really feel the difference between celeron or pentium proc (i wont even mention AMD...)
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Well in reality there both good, but if you asked me id go with the i5 if I had the money, the i5 operates on 2.7ghz and the Intel Celeron well 1.9ghz. Right of the bat you can see the difference. Now if the money is not available for i5, I would not hesitate to take the Toshiba, its not that is slow or bad, its just there are better laptops out there. I hope this answered it.
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i am not a hard core programmer, and if you are a hardcore programmer and know your stuff, you might as well order all your own hardware and put your own laptop together. But as far as I know from my use of this machine, I would not trust it to do anything that would require a lot of memory or storage. It offers an asus web cloud storage software, but i don't use this. As far as internet browsing and research goes, how serious you make this is up to you, but the computer seems a bit flaky and will just start clicking on things i don't want it to.hope this was helpful.
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Not to good to do that. I use it to browse the internet and do word processing. Feels a little under power go for the pentium much better
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Be advised, the processor is not adequate to use this device as a media server if you need to do any heavy transcoding. For backup and media downloading/organizing it works great. I'd really like to see an upgrade version with a powerful processor.
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It should do ok with those programs but I haven't used them much on it. There is a good amount of ram and everything that I have run so far that has been fairly intensive has worked well. I would recommend this laptop to pretty much anyone. Great deal for a great product.
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Hello KC. Your mini would come with more then enough ram to do what you need. You have a 2.5 ghz processor, 4 gigs of ram... and if you manage to outgrow that you can upgrade the ram down the road. I am a graphic artist and work with memory intensive programs, it is very fast and haven't noticed any lag time as long as you don't have too many other programs open in the background. There is also an additional perk that you Mini comes pre-loaded with iMovie software so you can create videos from scratch. :)
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If all you're doing is editing pictures, I'd recommend a cheaper laptop, but if you're going to be using this for games, rendering, large video projects, ect. This is what you want.
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It would work, but it's kind of slow - even when doing things like just web surfing and opening files. You could spend a little more and get something with noticeably better performance, and you would be happier. But if this is all you can afford, I think it's not a bad choice.