User talk:MrNuke/LTS Candidates

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This page contains a series of potential candidates for a new Long-Term SUpport laptop.

  • Requirements:
    • RYF-certifiable: all blobs can be replaced with reasonable effort
    • Sturdy: Won't come apart in the first years of use
    • Long shelf-life: Expected to be manufactured in large quantities, sold for at least 2 yrs
    • Cool factor: Must be attractive enough as a piece of hardware to attract users

15.6" screen candidates

HP Probook 655 G1

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Beffy A10-5750M 4 x 2.5 $ 1080 1.0
Bacony A8-5550M 4 x 2.1 $ 810 0.84
Vegetarian A4-5150M 2 x 2.7 $ 650 0.54

HP ProBook 455 G1

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Bacony A8-5550M 4 x 2.1 $ 600 0.84
Grinded A6-5350M 2 x 2.9 $ 540 0.58
Vegetarian A4-5150M 2 x 2.7 $ 500 0.54

HP 255 G2

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Grinded A6-5200 4 x 2.0 $ 590 0.80
Vegetarian A4-5000 4 x 1.5 $ 500 0.60

14.0" screen candidates

HP ProBook 645 G1

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Beffy A10-5750M 4 x 2.5 $ 1070 1.0
Bacony A8-5550M 4 x 2.1 $ 800 0.84
Vegetarian A4-5150M 2 x 2.7 $ 640 0.54

13.3" screen candidates

Samsung Chromebook 2

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Vegetarian Exynos 8 x ?? $ ??? ??

11.6" screen candidates

HP 215 G1

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Grinded A6-1450 4 x 1.4 $ 470 0.56
Vegetarian A4-1250 4 x 1.0 $ 400 0.40

HP Chromebook 11

Beefiness CPU cpufreq MSRP NRBSPU
Vegetarian ARM!!! ?? $ 300 ??

Rating system

Beefiness:

  • Beefy: Expected to have great performance and responsiveness
  • Bacony: Expected to have reasonable performance
  • Grinded: Expected to be usable; possibly outperforms chromebooks
  • Vegetarian: Expected to be have chromebook-like performance.

(*) NRBSPU is a Normalized Relative BS Performance Unit, which shall be taken to represent a non-scientific relative performance number between CPUs. It's most likely worthless.