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Amid the Kaby Lake noise this week, Intel slipped out six processors, codenamed Apollo Lake, for cheapo netbooks, tablet-laptop mutants and small PC boxes. These are 14nm low-power system-on-chips that use the x86 Goldmont architecture, and are branded Pentiums and Celerons. In April, Intel axed its Goldmont-based Broxton …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Apple to finally enter a (useable) netbook market?

    With these specs even Apple might not turn their nose up at using them.

    (Intel should have brought back the Centrino branding for these, Centrino ULV Pentium-m processors branding).

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    1. P. Lee
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      Re: Apple to finally enter a (useable) netbook market?

      Isn't apple already their with their "one-usb-socket-for-everything" macbook?

      Oh, wait, you said "usable" netbook...

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    2. Jon B
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      Re: Why name them Celeron?

      Agree Centrino would be a better name. I always associate Celeron with cruddy cheapo systems.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Not just Netbooks

    The low end NUCs use chips like these too, e.g. NUC5CPYH uses Celeron N3050

    You can put together a complete system, with 8GB RAM and a small SSD, for £200.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Not just Netbooks

      Yeah, I was mulling getting a N3150 based Brix to replace an ageing laptop I use for general surfing and media stuff - might hold back for the later gen GPU on these.

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    2. Crazy Operations Guy
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      Re: Not just Netbooks

      I've been using one to test out Linux distros (Still haven't found one that I like well enough to use as my main machine). Hardware is old enough that device drivers exist in the Open-Source world, but new enough that its representative of a newer system and can be used to test my newer peripherals.

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