Athlon 3000G box gets a makeover The new box is bigger, has a new fan and no longer advertises “Vega” graphics. AMD Athlon 3000G new version, Source: Hoang Anh Phu The AM4 socket has been around for a long time already, long enough to see support for some now ancient Athlon CPUs. The Athlon 3000G […]
it probably costs AMD nothing to keep ordering these from Global Foundries. I’m GloFlo is just happy to have someone taking up foundry space. Dual Cores with SMT wouldn’t be terrible in 2023 just for a basic web browsing computer. With programs like Google docs and Office 365 just living in browsers, things like Canvas and Balckboard also only existing on a browser, and most of the most popular sites on the internet pretty much just being netflix, youtube, facebook, reddit, and instagram, tik tok and sites like that, all of which will run on pretty much anything, there isn’t much too wrong here. People were going on youtube, reddit, and facebook back in 2010 when most people had 2 cores. Sites have become more demanding, but hardware even at the low end is just so fast now for these ultra basic tasks. Haswell IPC is still more than usable in 2023 for web browsing. The biggest pain is really how heavy windows has become for essentially no real benefit to the user. to browse the web on windows 11 you end up eating up way more ram than windows 7. Mostly due to windows 11 running like a billion processes in the background doing random crap that does nothing to benefit me. Installing any linux distro or debloated windows version will really benefit a system like this. The less processes fighting each other just so you can watch subway surfer videos, the better. The media engine supports H264 and H265 decoding so that will do most of the heavy lifting for content consumption.
Same even on the macOS side. I have a sleek 12 inch MacBook, the top of the line 2017 model and it really chugs and saps battery to run spotlight indexing. I tried turning it off but then I can’t launch apps with it anymore. You’d think there’d be an option to spend the few thousand clock cycles to match against filenames in a single folder but nope!
Plan to install arch on that bad boy. Even if sleep won’t work and I have to boot it fresh. I want to use that computer still and with macOS I sorta can’t.
This! Someone I know cobbled a 3000G ITX but it only has to do office stuff and 1080p YT/Netflix. 16GB and an SSD, cost them almost nothing.