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Single core? That must be more like 20 years old now.
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I don't believe this meme for a second.
Wikipedia:
The production of single-core desktop processors ended in 2013 with the Celeron G440, G460, G465 & G470.
Those are so weak it's not even funny.
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Intel still makes Celerons that are probably just slightly faster than these
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They could have made them even slower if the old architecture doesn't cost so much more to manufacture.
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Imagine that computing environments existed and thrived before gigabytes and gigahertz.
I have done significant work on a machine with a single 8MHz core and 8Mbytes of RAM that I shared with several people.
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It's not common, but you can find some in really cheap chromebooks going back only a few years and those are prime candidates for Linux.
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I've never seen one that wasn't 4 cores
ARM is cheap
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They have shitty ARM too, they pull out all the stops on chromebooks.
Dual core ARM, new in 2021, its not alone: https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/chromebook/c203xa/
Intel also still has some celerons they make with dual cores right now.
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Good to know
I guess I know what to avoid
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Since they're Chromebooks aren't they already running Linux, with ChromeOS being a very light Gentoo, sort of
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