How Good is the AMD e-300?

There is a notebook at Best Buy for sale during Black Friday

Lenovo G575-438343U (Left side, scroll down)

It is $179.99 w/:
AMD e-300 @ 1.3ghz
2GB RAM
15.6" display
250GB HDD

Is this laptop worth it for watching lots of flash video? Or will it lag like other netbooks? Worth it?

 

1080p video will play perfectly, all general use stuff will be fine, and it's a steal at that price. I own a B575 which is about the same as that, but with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, and an AMD E-350. I can answer any of your questions regarding that notebook.

EDIT: Speaking of which if you plan to multitask alot or play more recent games get another 2GB RAM, you can easily do that for like $20 extra. Throw in a $100 Intel SSD and you'll be speeding.

 

The E-300 is comparable to a desktop Celeron G440(single core 1.6GHz) or a mobile Celeron 560.

It's actually much slower than even an old Core Duo processor.

Passmark:

G440: 560
E-300: 601
560: 585

 

I have heard that AMD e-series lack in Passmark benchmark because that is just purely a cpu test, and not one that take into account graphics power...right?

How can AMD claim it is as fast as an Intel B800? - Ah, the Intel B800 is a 1.5ghz "Sandy Bridge" Celeron CPU.

Questions for Metroid III or anyone with a similar laptop:
- How is the temperature when watching 1080p video or somewhat stressed?
- How loud is the fan speed on a bad day?

Thanks to anyone answering questions.

 

AFAIK Passmarks for CPU's only measures raw calculation performance on the CPU.

As for those questions:
- Played games pushing the hardware to its limits in the mid-summer, in the southeast US. Internal temps on the CPU/GPU never peaked past 61 degrees stock voltage. Overheating on these things is impossible IMO under normal operating conditions. 1080p video is a breeze for this hardware and you can do other things perfectly smooth while doing so, as if it had no effect on the hardware at all.
- the fans on the worst day when gaming are constant, but not loud. Normal use is about the same but a bit lower. The fans never become loud to the point of being noticeable in a room where even just one person is talking normally. Unfortunately the G575 and B575 are notorious for having bad cooling algorithms aka they don't know when to just shut off the fan. This can be solved for the most part by undervolting the processor with the AMD E-350 I have; however, I don't know if the AMD E-300 has the same support, google is your friend.

 

I know they are different class... but...

Would it be worth it to pay an additional $150 for a laptop with an Intel T4500 @ 2.3ghz?

I have a laptop with an Intel Pentium t3400, which is much cooler and faster in videos than another laptop I have with an AMD Turion RM-70 w/ Nvidia Geforce 8200m, which I will be replacing because it lags when playing full screen 480p video and averages at 90-100C (clean fans, hardly anything installed).

Thanks again.

 

That RM-70 + 8200M is already stronger than the E-300 APU. Did you already try reapply thermal paste?

The E-300 CPU by itself might not be able to play 1080p video but with the help of hardware video acceleration or maybe DXVA, with certain software it should be able to pass video decoding work to the GPU. Same thing for the RM-70 which can pass video decoding to the 8200M even though the RM-70 should be fine with 1080p video in general if it were not overheating.

 

The problem is, on full flash screen videos (non-HD), the RM-70 laptop lags quite a bit, especially if it's not flash videos on Youtube (if that makes a difference).

On my Intel T3400 laptop however, the same videos are lag free and the fan is very quiet.

I have considered reapplying thermal paste on my RM-70 laptop (HP G60), but I have discovered that it is absurdly difficult to do so, and are little to none how-to videos that are clear on how to take it apart. Not worth it. Undervolting is also not an option because RM-clock and other AMD-based programs are not compatible, or so from I have found on Google. That is why I want to replace this laptop, it has even turned off by itself from overheating a couple of times. I have tried cooling pads, flat surfaces, dust cleaning and even reinstalling windows. No luck.

I am going to try and see if there is a AMD e-300 display laptop I can try for performance. I DO realize how slow this APU is on paper. I am wondering if real-life experience is any different.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the E-300 is better at flash though taking into account it's optimizations with the processor and video component specifically as a multimedia platform. Also the video component of the E-300 is itself a little bit more powerful.