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I think about to a Dell notebook for my daughter this year, first year in
college. I believe the laptop is slow anyway so is it worth to pay $100-150
more P4 ? For school work I believe Celeron should be good enough? Any
suggestion?

Thanks

Hai
"Barry OGrady" <god_freee_jones@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 03:35:04 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:15:26 +1100, Barry OGrady
> ><god_freee_jones@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>> Are there any Con's to having a Celeron over a P4?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a big difference between a Celeron 2.4 vs 2.5?
> >>
> >>>I use Celerons often and have no problems - including video editing.
they
> >>>are a bit slower in the benchmarks. but not noticeable in the "feel" of
the
> >>>system. regardless of what you use be sure to use good quality ram -
512 mb
> >>>is a nice number.
> >>
> >>The main difference is that the Celeron has only a 128K cache.
> >
> >..., and the FSB speed, which is a bit backwards if trying to get similar
> >performance, since the smaller the L2 cache is more drastically impacted
> >by a low FSB & Memory bus speed.
>
> I upgraded from a K6/2/500 with PC100 memory to a Celeron 2.4 with a 400
Mhz FSB
> and DDR 333 memory. The new machine is several times faster converting AVI
to MPEG.
> My moboard can use a P4 to beyond 3 Ghz and a 533 Mhz FSB so I can
upgrade.
>
> >True enough, a Celeron is plenty fast enough to run a windows box GUI,
> >basic office apps/email/etc, but then so is an old 800MHz Celeron.  That
> >video editing may even "seem" ok to someone using the Celerons, until
they
> >start looking at doing it realtime with compression, or overall job times
> >for filtering & compression, then the Celeron starts to look pitiful
>
> I knew when I bought it that the celeron is slower than most, but I got a
good price.
>
>
> -Barry
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