I have a machine with a N4500, and it's actually fine for web browsing in regular Firefox.
The main problem I experience with it are: 1) Go compile times on some projects, and 2) JS frontend builds.
The Go compiler is fairly fast, but there are some patterns that can make the compiler much slower, and the difference can be pretty dramatic.
I don't do that much frontend stuff and many projects are fine, but some projects are just a horse to build. At my last job it took at least ~5G of RAM and ~3 minutes on my i5-8350U (never tried on the N4500). This is a main reason I bought a new machine; otherwise I'd still be using the i5 (a second-hand x280 I got for ~€200 because the screen on the N4500 broke, although that has magically fixed itself in the meanwhile and now I have 3 laptops).
The main problem I experience with it are: 1) Go compile times on some projects, and 2) JS frontend builds.
The Go compiler is fairly fast, but there are some patterns that can make the compiler much slower, and the difference can be pretty dramatic.
I don't do that much frontend stuff and many projects are fine, but some projects are just a horse to build. At my last job it took at least ~5G of RAM and ~3 minutes on my i5-8350U (never tried on the N4500). This is a main reason I bought a new machine; otherwise I'd still be using the i5 (a second-hand x280 I got for ~€200 because the screen on the N4500 broke, although that has magically fixed itself in the meanwhile and now I have 3 laptops).