Test and benchmarks of core components – processors and graphics – you can find in affordable laptops.
The Intel U300 is an entry-level laptop processor. It’s an adequate choice for the daily computing tasks. It is not as fast as the mainstream Intel Core chips like the i3-1315U and especially the i5-1335U and i7-1355U from the same U-series family. That can slow down heavier computing like video editing on laptops with the … Read more
If you are planning to purchase a Windows 11 laptop for everyday use in 2026 but you are on a tight budget, you likely wonder whether 8GB of RAM you can typically find in affordable laptops is enough or should you pay a bit more and go for 16GB RAM instead. Here’s our take and a quick test of 8GB versus 16GB RAM usage with Windows 11 and some common day-to-day apps involved.
We have just checked whether DeepSeek R1 AI can run locally on a regular everyday laptop without a dedicated graphics card. For the test we have used Ollama with the basic DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B and heavier R1-Distill-Llama-8B and R1-Distill-Qwen-14B models on a 7-year old laptop with the Intel Core i5-8250U CPU and its Intel UHD 620 integrated graphics. And it works, but note the R1 1.5B, 8B, and 14B are way smaller models than the full blown R1 671B.
The Intel Core i3-5005U and i3-5010U are good dual-core laptop processor solutions for budget-conscious buyers who want to avoid slowness of the Intel Celeron and Pentium chips found in the majority of low-cost laptops. The i3-5005U & i3-5010U as representatives of the 5th Generation Intel Core U-series “Broadwell” family offer sufficient speed for daily tasks … Read more
The Intel HD 5500 is the most important graphics processing unit for laptops in 2015. Although it isn’t a high-performance one, the Intel HD 5500 is probably the widest adopted GPU for mobile PCs on the current market, since it is integrated in the popular Intel Core series processors. Precisely, the 5th Generation Intel Core … Read more
The graphics processor built into the popular Intel Core Ultra H-series main processors, like the Core Ultra 5 125H, 7 155H or 9 185H, is called Intel Arc. The Intel Arc branding is also used for Intel’s dedicated video cards, but Arc in this post is related to the integrated graphics only. It is certainly … Read more
The Intel Celeron N3050 and N3060 belong to the 14-nanometer “Braswell” processor family and bottom of Intel’s laptop CPU lineup. The dual-core chips are clocked at 1.6GHz base speed. The boost speed on the N3050 goes up to 2.16GHz, while the N3060 can go up to 2.48GHz. Regardless of the clock speed differences, both chips … Read more
The 8th Generation Intel Core i7-8550U higher-end laptop processor packs a serious punch without being power-hungry and without requiring very large cooling systems. With its four cores and a 15-Watt power consumption, it’s a great alternative to the 45-Watt i7 HQ quad-core series. The 8th Gen i7-8550U is also a noticeably more powerful substitute for … Read more
The AMD Ryzen 3 4300U is a mid-range laptop processor. It provides optimal performance for the ordinary computing tasks. It can complete them easily, be it work in Office-type applications, web-based stuff, and similar. In addition, the Radeon integrated graphics processor of the Ryzen 3 4300U enables you to play many of the popular game … Read more
The 11th Generation Intel Core i3-1115G4 is a lower-mid-range processor. It’s typically used in the mainstream laptop category, as a cheaper choice than the faster and pricier i5-1135G7 and i7-1165G7 chips from the same 11th Gen Intel Core G-series lineup. As the main difference, the Core i3-1115G4 has two processor cores, as opposed to four … Read more
