Is a Celeron Laptop Enough for Basic Functions?

My gf is looking for a backup, cheap laptop. She already got a Dell i7 one for work and videos. But she wants a backup laptop in case the Dell get problems(as it did recently, but I was managed to fix it)...

I read before the Celeron is bad. How is it bad really? All she needs it for is Skype and browsing and Netflix.

It will be alright for that, but they're not the greatest to use. Modern celerons aren't anywhere as bad as they used to be, but they're still not great.

I would go with i3 if you want no delays and SSD as well.

Celeron would be enough if you're getting a Chrombook.

its more than enough for everyday tasks. hell a 10 year pc or a low end smart phone is enough to run a web browser and Word.

Thanks guys! It wont lag on Skype/video chats right?

Just no nos are games and such?

My youngest kid has a Lenovo Thinkpad 11e with a Celeron N3150, 8 GB RAM and a 128 GB SSD. It does okay on everyday tasks.

There are many older and lighter requirement games that should play okay on a Celeron. Even my 2010 Toshiba Atom netbook has games installed.

Not sure why she would want a celeron, as you stated she already has a device for all demanding tasks.

Well I don't know what type of person your partner is, clumsy, careless because I would suggest a large 7inch phone that's just as powerful as a i3 CPU

Your partner should by a external drive and not back up via windows.

Get one copy of puppy Linux, and a external drive? Why well if your windows did crash all your works backed that you chose in the external drive, and puppy slacko Linux can run off a 4gig usb (free( running via ram and Not the drive, giving you access to everything while acting as your temporary os that does everything (chrome OS would with out installing) and then you can reinstall your os or access the windows drive in puppy and decide on what to do with that disk. Reinstall it with key with out losing any data.

But I'm not sure why she doesn't use her phone, download the content and stream it via her phone to what ever device she wants(or use it to watch on a generic vr phone headset) there's so many ways to tackle this, it only requires exploration.

You can use localcast via hotspot to stream to your TV, console, tablet. It's on android not if also on apple store.