Intel's Celeron N2840 is a dual-core processor that has been primarily designed for economic devices such as netbooks. In terms of performance, the Celeron lineup is located roughly between Atom and Pentium processors. With a TDP of only 7.5 watts, it has more been made for saving energy than for top performance. The CPU can clock with up to 2580 MHz, but both cores only run with a maximum of 2160 MHz in the Aspire ES1-111.
The Cinebench benchmarks show that the difference in the processor's performance is not vast compared with the competition. It was expected that Lenovo's S20-30 achieves virtually equal scores with its almost identical chip. Acer's Aspire E3-111 sports a quad-core Celeron that also achieves a twice as high score in the multi-core benchmark.