Intel Celeron / Windows XP - still being sold.

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As I wanted to ask a combined question on hardware & software, I had to incorporate part of it into the wrong forum.

I still see the odd PC for sale with Celeron and / or Windows XP - to those of you in the industry, when will they finally be killed off ?

Is there a fixed date that not only the manufacturers stop production, but after which time retailers stop trying to flog-off old stock ?

Only reason could be to cater to the lower-end of the market, but especially, when it comes to processors, Dual Core 2 should by now be the minimum all manufacturers should be using ?

As an eg. one of the retailer's is selling an Acer 2.5GHz for under R3k with the Celeron E3300 (and Windows 7, in this case). 2GB memory. 320GB HD. (Screen not included) Is it worth considering this for a machine that'll only be used for docs, Excel, basic internet & e-mail ?
Don't understand why they're using such an outdated processor & the rest seems to be OK ?
 
Thats a good price, regarding your question, XP has been kiled off from us buying it to sell over the counter, you would now have to get it via a downgrade that was shipped with popular brands (Acer, HP etc) and downgrade but i have heard even this too is being killed off. Between XP & 7, its almost seamless due to ease of use :D
 
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Exactly, I sell E3300s with Windows 7 Home Basic, nothing wrong with them.
The one you saw was at HiFi Corp right?
 
Intel 486 DX2 66MHz
16MB RAM (4x4MB)
Tseng 4000 1MB 256
512MB HDD
Creative Sound Blaster 16
Creative Quad Speed CD-ROM
14" Tatung VGA 800x600
Windows 95

Brings back memories - and this would have been darn expensive - never mind the DX 4 - 100
 
Celeron is just a brand, a position in the pecking order - they aren't all the same. Some of them, like the E3300, even have a very good price/performance ratio.
 
Toilet_Duck said:
Exactly, I sell E3300s with Windows 7 Home Basic, nothing wrong with them. The one you saw was at HiFi Corp right?
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That's correct.

In fact, have since come across the following article, going back to July '10. Interestingly, they state that the Core 2 Duo will fall away, but Celeron will continue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/celeron-clarkdale-sandy-bridge-core-nehalem,10848.html

Worth reading through the comments - there's some consensus that cheaper AMD's are a better option than Celeron.

I'll still consider this Acer, due to the positive feedback.
Will go nicely with a 20'' monitor from Samsung I'm also keen on.
 
I think Intel should consider renaming Celeron.

I have owned many in my time, and reckon that if it had a new name to match its image, people would associate the budget CPU's in a better light.

Currently though i associate Celeron with being slow, lazy, throttled and cheap, even though its not the case anymore.
 
The E3xxx chips are similar to the E5xxx difference is they have 1MB less cache. They're also better than the *Pentium* E2xxx chips. It should be fine for office use, I actually gamed using an E3300 for a few weeks and it was fine. Don't let the name fool you.
 
To those of you who contributed to this thread - thanks for doing so, as I committed to buying the Acer this a.m. - I can't believe how quiet it, compared to the Pentium 4 I've been using for 5 years. Also, got the Samsung 20'' wide-screen monitor. Compare that to an old CRT monitor, and it's like night & day !

I also remember Celeron having a bad name, and would never even have considered buying a PC with it included, if I hadn't received impartial views on MyBB.

I still need to upload docs. to Gmail on old computer & archive e-mails - thereafter I can get on to using the new one, full time.

Rgds.
 
BayCityRoller said:
To those of you who contributed to this thread - thanks for doing so, as I committed to buying the Acer this a.m. - I can't believe how quiet it, compared to the Pentium 4 I've been using for 5 years. Also, got the Samsung 20'' wide-screen monitor. Compare that to an old CRT monitor, and it's like night & day !

I also remember Celeron having a bad name, and would never even have considered buying a PC with it included, if I hadn't received impartial views on MyBB.

I still need to upload docs. to Gmail on old computer & archive e-mails - thereafter I can get on to using the new one, full time.

Rgds.
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Nice one! And enjoy that extra space on your desk in front (or behind) the monitor!!
 
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