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I'd definitely prefer to have gone the AMD route for these, but N200 isn't that awful, no? At least comparable to some Skylake gens? Not that that's amazing in the modern day, but I'd say still capable enough with the included specs to not be too bogged down by some of the lighter distros.
Better off with a Chromebook 10/10 times if you need something low powered, but I think it's an interesting entry to the hardware space.
I doubt it's powerful enough to play back 4k videos smoothly and 1080p stretched to the native resolution doesn't look super great. If AMD didn't offer a vastly better alternative at similar cost, fine, but Ryzen Z1 and such are available.
I have an N100 box running as my Plex server. It has no problem transcoding multiple 4k videos at once. This processor is no M2 but it isn’t really a slouch either.
At 1 GHz? Sure about that? Even if my performance assumptions are off: something like the Steam Deck CPU surely still beats it, especially in low power.
It can clock up to 3.7 GHz and has a decent GPU for an Intel one. All I can say for sure is that it keeps up just fine.
I see no cooling vents, so apparently passive cooling only and massive downclocking. Still think an AMD chip would have been better.