[zelos]

I have a 2015 Toshiba Chromebook - 4GB RAM, 1.7GHz Celeron I think - and while it's fine for a lot of things, browsing the 'modern' web on it is so painful.

Sites cause the UI to hang for seconds at a time. Switching between tabs can take an age. Browse to some technology review site and you sit and wait for 10 seconds while the JS slowly loads a "please sign up for our newsletter" popover.

[tim333]

Funny how these things vary. I've got a 2013 macbook, 4GB RAM, 1.3GHz processor and everything is snappy. Good SSD and OSX I guess.

[zelos]

Intel's naming is confusing, but I think the Celeron is an Atom-based N2840, roughly 30-50% of the performance of that MacBook.