Comparison of 3rd gen and 10th gen CB15 performance highlights key differences in power, efficiency, and handling.
Comparison of 3rd gen and 10th gen CB15 performance highlights key differences in power, efficiency, and handling.
Take a look at this setup. I have a new Lenovo T14s for professional use with an i5 10310U and 4 cores/8 threads, paired with an i5 3317U with 2 cores/4 threads in the CB15. The architecture is 22nm versus 14nm+++. It handles multi-threaded tasks well. The clock speed is around 2666MHz, and it's running at 1x8GB RAM.
Indeed, the technology available then allowed for high clock speeds through overclocking, and reaching 5GHz on Sandy Bridge was possible.
Absolutely correct, a free laptop is unbeatable, and adding a Samsung NVMe SSD would significantly boost performance for everyday tasks.
It's just unexpected the CPU didn't improve much even with the latest model.