How good/bad are Celeron processors?

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I'm looking to buy a laptop, and the only ones in my price range are Celeron. I remember a friend buying a laptop with quite high specs - RAM, graphics etc - and it being quite *** nonetheless, which seemed to be because of the Celeron, he said.

Does anyone know the performance of Celerons as opposed to Pentium?

Edit: I'm not gonna be using it for anything hardcore, just watching movies, viewing documents etc. It comes with an HDMI output, which is sweet..
 
Celerons are ok for watching movies and viewing documents.

But trust me, you'll want to use it for more, and then you'll be disappointed that the Celeron can't handle it. I've seen it time and time again.

That said, if you can HONESTLY say to yourself that you won't be using it for more than that, then it's a decent buy.
 
Celerons just plain suck. They are like men, I'm afraid, they cannot multitask efficiently :) Even if you are using the laptop for wordprocessing/email etc. you will eventually rue the fact that you didn't spend a bit more on a system with a decent cpu. You can compensate somewhat by adding a large amount of ram, but that's about it.
 
Mmmmh Celeron in a laptop, trust me ina pc its bad enough. A single core CPU, with the abilty of a fish taking a swan dive off a cliff and surviving. Yeah its cheap and decent, if you dint mind long start up times, even with loads of ram makes no difference in essence.

You might enjoy it if your current pc has no life, as in is ancient then the celeron would be a miracle but other than dat try to get a dual core, if not a core2duo it will atleast give you a glimmer of hope and have the ability to do so much more.
 
get a AMD. i've had years of happyness with AMD processors, not one has given me issues, all my intel processors has just not been able to impress me with reliability...
 
ZAP_Tech said:
Mmmmh Celeron in a laptop, trust me ina pc its bad enough. A single core CPU, with the abilty of a fish taking a swan dive off a cliff and surviving. Yeah its cheap and decent, if you dint mind long start up times, even with loads of ram makes no difference in essence.

You might enjoy it if your current pc has no life, as in is ancient then the celeron would be a miracle but other than dat try to get a dual core, if not a core2duo it will atleast give you a glimmer of hope and have the ability to do so much more.
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excuse my noobiness but whats the difference ??? i tought they were the same :erm:
 
one is a Pentium dual core and the other is the new core 2 duo
 
In a nut shell core 2 duo is more powerful than dual core.

C2d is two physical cores on 2 different dies. Dual core is 2 physical cores on 1 die
 
Thanks guys. The search starts again

*Sigh..

Enjoy the weekend everybody..
 
Silverlight said:
In a nut shell core 2 duo is more powerful than dual core.

C2d is two physical cores on 2 different dies. Dual core is 2 physical cores on 1 die
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That's a little vague; compare the E5200(dual core) to E4600(C2D), the E5200 is not much worse than the E7400 C2D.

Can't you wait a month or two and get something with at least a dual core? Something with a C2D Centrino setup will also give you much better battery life than a celeron. Otherwise get something with a Core Solo processor, better than a celeron but still single core and with excellent battery life for not much more cash.
 
KhoisanX said:
That's a little vague; compare the E5200(dual core) to E4600(C2D), the E5200 is not much worse than the E7400 C2D.
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i guess so, but the E5xxx is the "2nd gen" dual cores, so that's why it beats the E4xxx series. It's also based on the Wolfdale architecture.
 
i've had celerons in the P3 days. you always feel you settled for 2nd best as it struggles along.
 
albert123 said:
get a AMD. i've had years of happyness with AMD processors, not one has given me issues, all my intel processors has just not been able to impress me with reliability...
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Hahaha serious? The only dead cpu i have ever had was an amd 3800+. Celeron's are horrible on a laptop, if you are happy with a slow ass lappie buy celeron.
 
Celeron:The name alone slumps me into depression.
My friend is running a 2.4mhz celeron on Vista Ultimate.[pc abuse]
Another client was bragging to me about his 3mhz dual core,only to my horror, to discover it was 2 very lazy celerons!
That cpu must die and soon!
 
demon angel said:
Celeron:The name alone slumps me into depression.
My friend is running a 2.4mhz celeron on Vista Ultimate.[pc abuse]
Another client was bragging to me about his 3mhz dual core,only to my horror, to discover it was 2 very lazy celerons!
That cpu must die and soon!
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No wonder:rolleyes:
 
Silverlight said:
In a nut shell core 2 duo is more powerful than dual core.

C2d is two physical cores on 2 different dies. Dual core is 2 physical cores on 1 die
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I always thought C2d were cool and has loads of cache, and pentium dual cores were just failed C2D's with disabled cache.

And celeron dual cores were pentium dual cores failed miserably, getting even les cache....

The two different die thing is only for the core 2 quads, hence AMD released an article saying real men uses real cores or something like that...could be because their quad cores are on a single die?
 
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