How good/bad are Celeron processors?

scotty777 said:
What makes the celeron slow is the cache size, which isn't a train smash if you just want a laptop to do things like web browsing, music, movies(you not gonna have the movie jutter etc) and so on. But if you wanna play games, use photoshop, video encode etc then avoid the celeron...

Honestly, a laptop should be used as a portable device where you do your work on, buy shyte for the web, do general stuff on it while away from the desktop... you shouldn't be aiming to video edit etc.


Edit,

How much do you have to spend on the laptop? I mean, we all could help you :)
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Apparently PS CS3 runs well on an Intel Atom 1.86 GHz (that's with HT enabled).
 
PeterCH said:
So they're Core Solos then with less cache, right?
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Yeah basically...

I still dont think a Celeron is that bad, its just a few seconds wait more to get anything done compared to better CPUs.

Lol wonder why didn't anyone compare the the i7 975 Extreme to the 2.4ghz Celeron? Just to show how bad it is? :p
 
Personally I don't think celeron is as bad as being made out here, sure it is not designed for high end pc work but as a general day to day processor it is perfect.

I have a celeron in my laptop and it grafts 100's. ;)
 
Grimspoon said:
Personally I don't think celeron is as bad as being made out here, sure it is not designed for high end pc work but as a general day to day processor it is perfect.

I have a celeron in my laptop and it grafts 100's. ;)
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+1 celerons are bad but not as bad as some guys are making it out to be, my dell inspiron 1300 laptop i've had for over 2 years now has a celeron 1.6 and runs videos fine (even hd vids) hell it is even decent at playing some fifa 09 (on high detail btw) while im on the go.

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Friends don't let friends buy celerons period. They suck, I own one.
 
ponder said:
Friends don't let friends buy celerons period. They suck, I own one.
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Yeah but which ones?

The Celerons based on the Pentium M and Conroes are all pretty decent, the higher freq ones based on P4 technology were just...like what you said
 
As I said they not that bad, I even finished HL2 on my fujitsu celeron 1.7 with a Ati card.

Seriously they do the job.
 
I have an old Fujitsu Siemens laptop with a Celeron M CPU and 512MB RAM......and it runs Ubuntu 9.04 like a faaking champ. :)
 
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