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I have been asked at work to find cheaper alternatives to the default laptops being ordered and used currently by the various departments at work.
Come across a few laptops which hit a solid price point but come with intel Celeron or pentium 3700 cpu's which have base clocks of around 1.6ghz but boost up to 2.4ghz.
The software the sales force use currently is Bria 4, which states it needs a dual core 2 2.1ghz as minimum and i5/i7 2.4ghz as recommended, I don't want to suggest the cheaper builds for the sales department unless the work correctly.
Does a turbo boost speed contribute towards meeting a minimum requirement and does it maintain its clock speed to ensure the application, in this case Bria 4 works correctly?
Software could perform checks but what most likely will happen is the software performance will be horrible on slower CPUs – Ramhound – 2016-07-26T17:18:36.093
@Ramhound Reputable software stopped doing that ages ago, though it is always a slight risk. – David Schwartz – 2016-07-26T18:46:34.547
Got the option to swap them out for i3 2.3ghz so might play it safe and opt for one of them – Jimjebus – 2016-07-27T07:05:52.247