Intel 16" 3K Business and Student Laptop, Celeron N150 Review

This laptop is a weird, confusing mess that you should avoid. It's got a 16-inch screen and a full terabyte of storage, which sounds great on paper. But then you look at the processor, an Intel Celeron N150 running at a glacial 0.1GHz, and it all falls apart. The one thing you need to know is that this machine is fundamentally broken for any real task. It's trying to be a business and student laptop, but its CPU is in the 9th percentile, which means it's slower than 91% of other laptops. It's a big, heavy shell with a hamster wheel for a brain.

The performance is exactly as bad as you'd expect from a 0.1GHz CPU. It will struggle with basic web browsing and lag horribly with more than a few tabs open. The only surprising thing is the GPU percentile ranking, which is a bizarre 98th. This is almost certainly a data error or a misleading spec, as the integrated AMD graphics paired with this CPU will be useless for anything but displaying a desktop. Don't be fooled by that number; this thing scored a 17.3 out of 100 for gaming, which tells you everything.

Even at $400, this laptop is a terrible value. You are paying for a large, slow paperweight. Any Chromebook or basic Windows laptop in this price range will run circles around it.

Forget the high-end competitors like the MacBook Pro or Legion Pro. They're in a different universe. A fair comparison is any modern budget laptop with an Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3. Something like an ASUS Vivobook or Lenovo IdeaPad for the same price will have a CPU that's literally hundreds of times faster and a much better overall experience. This Celeron machine isn't even in the same race.

Do not buy this laptop. It is one of the worst spec mismatches I've ever seen. The cripplingly slow CPU makes it unfit for purpose as a student or business machine. Spend your money on literally any other modern laptop in this price bracket. You'll get a functional computer instead of a frustration machine.