🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:41:19 -0400, "Hai Pham" <haipham@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>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

Yes, it could be good enough.
But, if a 2.4 Celeron is "ok", then so is a lot of stuff.
What I mean is that if you're running applications where the
impressing _slooowwnessss_ of the P4-Celeron is not really a problem,
like a bit of an office kit, web, email, etc, - then you can also get
away with a lot of old things, like PIIs, K6s, PIIIs, older Celerons.
And actually, a late PIII, or late 1 - 1.4GHz old Celeron is probably
just as fast.

An interesting observation here: The slowest available AMD cpu, the
1.6GHz Duron (some $30), is _faster_ than fastest 2.8GHz P4-Celeron.

But In favor of a new machine (Celeron), would be the rest of the
specs, - hd, ram, graphics, display, OS. Also, you should have better
media performance in that Celeron than in older cpus.

Adding some confusion, is that Intel intends to market Centrino core
cpus as "Celerons" (just for mobile). I wouldn't do that if I were
head of Intel marketing, because the Celeron name is a bit damaged by
now. Anyway, these Centrino-Celerons will probably rock! I've seen
some preliminary benchmarks, and they were quite good. The
Centrino-Celeron doesn't look like it will give much away to the
normal Centrino.

ancra

P.S. personally, I'd never buy either a P4-Celeron or a Dell, but
never mind, that decision is probably based on things you wouldn't
consider.