AMD E1-2500 (1.4GHz) enough for office work?

[suklee]

I'm looking to get an all in one (due to limited desktop space) for my mom to use at work - is the AMD E1-2500 (1.4GHz) CPU going to cut it for Windows 8.1, strictly for office work? It'll be used for emails basically 90% of the time and occasional web surfing. Word/Excel won't be used much if at all.

Thanks!

PS. Rest of the specs: 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, integrated Radeon 8240 http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...C-ENERGY-STAR-

 

[Sequences]

I have a AMD E450 netbook, an older and slightly slower cousin of that chip (I think). It came with 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD, and I must say it would not work for me. It was not snappy and generally made working a pain. It would eventually get the job done, but not quickly. I would get a big core setup for office work. A small core might serve you fine in the beginning for a few web tabs, but will quickly max out the minute you want to do other things.

 

[Arkadrel]

Yes a E1-2500 is fast enough for office work and web surfing.

Ive sat down and used a pc with a E1-2500, and it seemed fine to me.
If all you plan on doing is office & emails, and web surfing then a E1-2500 is fast enough.

 

[monstercameron]

this review can tell you what you need to know.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-ThinkPad-Edge-E145-Notebook.103235.0.html

 

[Cerb]

It would do, but only just. Dell has >2.5GHz Pentium AIOs, FI, for $500, and 3GHz ones with 1080P 23" displays for $600. Much better bang/buck (not necessarily pushing Dell, here, I'm just well-trained in navigating their site, and was pretty sure they had competitive models).

 

[el etro]

For office uses i would go with a a6-5200 at least.

 

[know of fence]

All in one PCs actually make sense in theory, use power efficient mobile parts in a custom power envelope, they share a power supply between the PC and monitor. In practice you pay a huge mark-up for a bunch of senselessly thrown together cheap-as-funk components, because they are mostly aimed at mainstream "large number advertisement". While HP passes all the savings directly to you, the share holder.

Who wouldn't like to use a 1600x900 screen with a kick-stand and the gentle vibe of 7200 RPM drive, but not without my essential 7-in-1-memory card reader and slim tray DVD-Burner. For less desktop clutter you get a wired mouse and keyboard, they never get lost again leashed to an economically short wire.

 

[Fox5]

Wow, between the two All in One Desktops offered, I think I'd rather get the Android one if specs are going to be that low. Android on a Tegra 4 is pretty snappy, but a 1.4ghz processor on Windows 8 is ok in Metro mode but of limited use in desktop mode.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/hom...100-All-in-One

Or for the same price, get one of the Atom based all in ones, or for slightly more, a Pentium. They lose touch, though.
Newegg has some options too...

Although for the prices, why not just get a laptop? Or a chromebook/chromebox if web browsing is the primary use case?

 

[jhu]

I'm looking to get an all in one (due to limited desktop space) for my mom to use at work - is the AMD E1-2500 (1.4GHz) CPU going to cut it for Windows 8.1, strictly for office work? It'll be used for emails basically 90% of the time and occasional web surfing. Word/Excel won't be used much if at all.

Thanks!

PS. Rest of the specs: 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, integrated Radeon 8240 http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...C-ENERGY-STAR-

It will be enough. Would suggest decrapifying the computer because those prebuilt computers come with 3rd party programs that like to load in the background and slow everything down.

I have an E-450 based laptop that I did a clean install of Windows 8 on. It was pretty snappy for non-gaming purposes. I bought my wife a Samsung laptop that is also E-450 based: slow as molasses because so much crap was being loaded on startup. Then I put Ubuntu on it and it was suddenly much faster. Moral of the story: decrapify or put Linux on it.

 

[crashtech]

Honestly, I can't imagine something so slow being rationalized for any sort of desktop device. I'm certain most VESA mountable NUCs would be superior in all respects to that HP pile. The A1 is slower than most old Athlon 64 X2 CPUs.

 

[Qbah]

I had the "pleasure" to do some maintenance on a laptop with this CPU last weekend. Paired with a regular 750GB 5400RPM HDD and 4GBs of RAM. It made me want to throw it out the window - that's how nice it is to work on. It was a relatively fresh Windows 8.1 installation without much running in the background.

Whoever thinks this is enough to do anything without getting annoyed is wrong. Opening tabs in FF when having one or two open caused the whole laptop to stop on occasion, opening any shortcuts was a lesson in patience. And if you happened to have a youtube tab open? Forget it. Multitasking is aggravating. Java? Just... no. What a piece of sh!t this CPU is - stay away.

 

[tweakboy]

Yes internet, and word processing. Watching DVDs etc. gl

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

I have an E-350 based laptop and it is dog slow. CPU utilization shoots to 100% on the seemingly most basic tasks. It would definitely not be enough for office use.

 

[Blue_Max]

I used a relatively recent Atom CPU and it made MS Office nearly impossible to use - even simple Excel spreadsheets were painfully slow.

An Intel G-series Pentium or Celeron would be great. An AMD A-series CPU would be fine.

The AMD E-series are just too slow for work, IMO.

 

[Cerb]

I'm getting to the point where anything less than i3 or recent AMD quad is too little for work. A Bobcat or Jaguar would technically do the job, if absolutely necessary, but a mere $50 more can get a Pentium, and it only gets better from there on up.

 

[Arkaign]

It's terrible. I mean it. It's HORRIBLE.

How bad is it? I rebuilt a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Dell from 2003 the other day, and IT was faster and more capable.

 

[monstercameron]

It's terrible. I mean it. It's HORRIBLE.

How bad is it? I rebuilt a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Dell from 2003 the other day, and IT was faster and more capable.

what hyperbole, the e1-2500 is a faster system than a 2.8GHz single core pentium and uses close to an order of magnitude less power.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/253483?baseline=83115
e1-2500 vs pentium 4 511

the performance will be fine for office tasks but just dont expect much multitasking.

 

[crashtech]

It's terrible. I mean it. It's HORRIBLE.

How bad is it? I rebuilt a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Dell from 2003 the other day, and IT was faster and more capable.

Hmm, faster per dollar, for sure, since most Pentium 4s are dumpster fodder. Comparing anything to a P4 is bound to raise some hackles, haha.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Terrible performance, even for office work. The price also doesnt strike me as any good really.

A 45$ Celeron is already 3-4x faster.

 

[Towermax]

I have an E-350 laptop and it's absolutely fine for email, web-surfing, and basic office tasks. It has 8GB of ram and a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD which certainly help improve overall performance.

 

[escrow4]

I wouldn't use anything less than an i3 for an office box at an absolute minimum, if not an i5. These are the sort of the boxes that last and last until something dies, hence I'd stuff them with as much hardware grunt as possible. Last I had a G1610 it spiked to 80-100% with Filezilla, Chrome + tabs, Foobar and a 1080p youtube video all going at once. This was with 4GB RAM + a 128GB Samsung Pro SSD.

 

[crashtech]

That's about 10 noes and 4 yeses so far.

 

[krumme]

I'm looking to get an all in one (due to limited desktop space) for my mom to use at work - is the AMD E1-2500 (1.4GHz) CPU going to cut it for Windows 8.1, strictly for office work? It'll be used for emails basically 90% of the time and occasional web surfing. Word/Excel won't be used much if at all.

Thanks!

PS. Rest of the specs: 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, integrated Radeon 8240 http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...C-ENERGY-STAR-

Yes it certainly will

- guys read what it says 90% email ffs!!

The benefit is its very efficient and provably nearly silent.

 

[crashtech]

Fine, if you want that sort of thing, at least spend $40 more and double your CPU power, which will at least put you into "good enough"territory:

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/hom...One-Desktop-PC

 

[crashtech]

Here's a laugh, a C2D AIO for less than a third the money, right here on the Anandtech FS board:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2366946

The E4600 outperforms the E1-2500.